Organising Data
Organising Data: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Organising Data, Frequency of Data & Frequency Distribution Table to Organise Data etc.
Important Questions on Organising Data
Here are the ages, (years), of people in a cinema.
Show the data in a frequency table with these class intervals: and
Show the data in a frequency table with these class intervals: and
Compare the table and identify which is the best way to represent the data.
Write your answer with reason.

Julian runs a bookshop. The table shows the number of books purchased by each of his last customers.
Number of books | ||||||||||
Number of customers |
Calculate the median number of books purchased by these customers.

Henri plays a game over and over again. On each attempt, he gets a score of between and . These are his scores for his first seven attempts : . Henri plays the game an eighth time. What is his score if the mean of all scores is .

The following frequency distribution table shows the number of marks obtained by the students of class in a test.
Marks obtained | ||||||||
Number of students |
What is the total number of students who took the test?

Construct a frequency table from the following data :
Class |
0-9 |
10-19 |
20-29 |
30-39 |
40-39 |
Frequency |
5 |
8 |
12 |
9 |
4 |

Draw a bar graph to illustrate the following :
Transport mode (to go to school) |
Walking |
School bus |
Rickshaw |
Car |
Other means |
Number of children |
15 |
35 |
25 |
10 |
15 |

The marks of students in a test were recorded as follows :
Mark% |
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No. of students |
Convert the above table into an exclusive type frequency distribution and hence make the cumulative frequency table.

The heights (in cm) of students of are given below :
Prepare a frequency distribution table with as class intervals. Also construct the cumulative frequency table.

The marks in mathematics of students are as follows :
How many students have scored less than ?

The marks in mathematics of students are as follows :
How many students have scored or more?

The marks in mathematics of students are as follows :
If are the pass marks, how many students have passed?

The marks in mathematics of students are as follows :
What is the lowest score?

The marks in mathematics of 30 students are as follows :
75, 44, 53, 61, 58, 88, 37, 60, 64, 84, 78, 98, 59, 68, 58, 60, 55, 70, 48,100, 39, 62, 67, 50, 90, 60, 56, 48, 52, 77.
What is the highest score?

The marks in mathematics of 30 students are as follows :
Represent the data in the form of frequency distribution with one class, second class and so on.

Using class intervals 0 - 4, 5 - 9, 10 - 14, .... construct the frequency distribution for the following data :
12, 15,8, 16, 13, 7, 4, 12 17. 15, 11, 18, 19, 13, 21, 14,9, 7, 250, 23, 22, 10, 2, 14, 20.

The marks obtained by students of a class (out of ) are given below :
Create the frequency distribution table for the given data.

The weights of new born babies (in ) in a hospital on a particular day are as follows:
How many babies weigh more than ?

The marks obtained by students are:
What is the range of marks?

The marks obtained (out of ) by students are:
Array the data and form a frequency distribution table.
What is the highest mark?

The ages (in years) of the teachers in a school are listed here.
Which class interval do most teachers belong to?
