Organising Data

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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

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Here are the ages, A (years), of 40 people in a cinema.

4464415358455554625150475874952434752495258535047445662515821363224391626171812

Show the data in a frequency table with these class intervals: 0A<20, 20A<40, 40A<60 and 60A<80

Show the data in a frequency table with these class intervals: A<40, 40A<45, 45A<50, 50A<55, 55A<60 and 60A<65

Compare the table and identify which is the best way to represent the data.

Write your answer with reason.

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Julian runs a bookshop. The table shows the number of books purchased by each of his last 25 customers. 

Number of books 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of customers 8 9 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1

Calculate the median number of books purchased by these customers. 

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Henri plays a game over and over again. On each attempt, he gets a score of between 1 and 20. These are his scores for his first seven attempts : 16, 14, 13, 15, 10, 9, 11. Henri plays the game an eighth time. What is his score if the mean of all 8 scores is 12.

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The following frequency distribution table shows the number of marks obtained by the students of class VIII in a test.

Marks obtained 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Number of students     3      5       8     24     21     18    10      7

What is the total number of students who took the test?

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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

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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

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The marks of 100 students in a test were recorded as follows :

Mark%

10-19

20-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-69

70-79

80-89

No. of students

5

4

10

24

28

18

8

3

Convert the above table into an exclusive type frequency distribution and hence make the cumulative frequency table.

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The heights (in cm) of 30 students of class IX are given below :

153, 157, 148, 157, 161, 159, 153, 150, 148, 149, 160, 155, 158, 154, 158, 160, 152, 147, 155, 163, 155, 157, 153, 156, 152, 156, 154, 151, 159, 162.

Prepare a frequency distribution table with 160 -164, 164 -168, as class intervals. Also construct the cumulative frequency table.

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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.

How many students have scored less than 50?

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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.

How many students have scored 75 or more?

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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.

If 40 are the pass marks, how many students have passed?

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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 lowest score?

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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?

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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.

Represent the data in the form of frequency distribution with 30 - 39 one class, 40 to 49 second class and so on.

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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.

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The marks obtained by 40 students of a class (out of 50) are given below :36, 38, 37, 32, 38, 28, 23, 43, 27, 36, 26, 28, 38,36. 33, 43, 32, 25, 41, 21, 27, 43,36, 22, 44. 35, 40, 22,33, 30, 41, 40, 33, 32, 25, 27, 26, 25, 23, 22.

Create the frequency distribution table for the given data.

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The weights of new born babies (in kg) in a hospital on a particular day are as follows:

2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.7, 2.6, 3.0, 2.5, 2.9, 2.8, 3.1, 2.5, 2.8, 2.7, 2.9, 2.4

How many babies weigh more than 2.8 kg?

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The marks obtained by 40 students are:

6,1,7,3,4,2,4,5,6,4,8,3,0,2,3,2,3,3,3,7,9,5,5,8,6,1,2,4,4,0,1,5,9,4,8,1,2,7,3,7

What is the range of marks?

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The marks obtained (out of 10) by 40 students are:

6,1,7,3,4,2,4,5,6,4,8,3,0,2,3,2,3,3,3,7,9,5,5,8,6,1,2,4,4,0,1,5,9,4,8,1,2,7,3,7

Array the data and form a frequency distribution table.

What is the highest mark?

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The ages (in years) of the 40 teachers in a school are listed here.
27, 35, 26, 33, 24, 43, 34, 20, 47, 56, 42, 49, 57, 34, 54, 29, 50, 21, 37, 58,30, 28, 26, 20, 34, 33, 27, 41, 59, 47, 62, 52, 29, 30, 25, 37, 29, 44, 22.
Which class interval do most teachers belong to?