Frequency Tables: Examples
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A frequency table shows the number of times each value occurs. The mode is the data with the highest frequency.
Example
The following data shows the test marks obtained by a group of students.
Draw a frequency table for the data and find the mode.
6 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
8 |
6 |
8 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
10 |
2 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
6 |
6 |
9 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
10 |
8 |
1 |
5 |
8 |
Solution:
Go through the data; make a stroke in the tally column for each occurrence of the data. The number of strokes will be the frequency of the data.
The mode is 6 and 8 since they both have the highest frequency of 5.
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