Name: Introduction to Data Handling
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 2 min 50 s
Description: The frequency of a particular data value is the number of times the data value occurs. Want to learn more? Watch this video to learn about terms like range a...

Question

Following is the choice of sweets of $30$ students of class $VI :$ Ladoo, Barfi, Ladoo, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Jalebi, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Ladoo,

Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Jalebi, Ladoo, Rasgulla, Ladoo, Ladoo, Barfi, Rasgulla. Rasgulla, Ladoo.

Arrange the names of sweets in a table using tally marks.

Accepted Answer

Frequency distribution or frequency table is a method to present raw data in the form of Tally Marks and Frequency, from which one can easily understand the information contained in the raw data.

Where, the number of times an observation occurs in a given data is called the frequency of observation. And, Tally Marks is way of counting an observations with the help of vertical and diagonal lines.The general way of writing tally marks is as a group or set of five lines. The first four lines are drawn vertically and each of the fifth line runs diagonally over the previous four vertical lines, i.e., from the top of the first line to the bottom of the fourth line. Where, The symbol ‘|’ is used to denote the value one.

Therefore, the required frequency distribution table for the given data is:

Sweet Tally Marks Frequency

Ladoo $| | | | | | | | | |$ $12$

Barfi $| | |$ $3$

Jalebi $| | | | |$ $6$

Rasgulla $| | | | | | | |$ $9$

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