Frequency Polygon

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Frequency Polygon: Overview

This Topic covers sub-topics such as Frequency Polygon, Drawing a Frequency Polygon, Class Marks for Frequency Polygon, Relation between Histogram and Frequency Polygon, Characteristics of a Frequency Polygon and, Understanding a Frequency Polygon

Important Questions on Frequency Polygon

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The length of the rectangle of histogram and the frequency are proportional to each other.

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Frequency polygon is drawn after drawing the histogram of the collected data.

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To draw frequency polygon we need to draw histogram first.

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Frequency polygons can also be drawn independently without drawing histograms.

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 The class interval of a given observation is 10 to 15, then the classmark for this interval will be

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Show the following data by a frequency polygon.

Electricity bill () 0-200 200-400 400-600 600-800 800-1000
Families 240 300 450 350 160

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Frequency polygons are used when the data is continuous and very large.

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In frequency polygon, we join the mid-points of the upper sides of the adjacent rectangles of the histograms by means of line segments.

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Frequency polygons can be drawn independently without drawing _____ .

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What is the width of each rectangle in the histogram?

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What is the area of the first rectangle (from left) of the histogram below?

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What is the sum of area of all rectangles in the histogram below?

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The frequency polygon ABCDE shows the weight distribution of students in a student’s camp.

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The number of students in the students’ camp is _____.