Question

100 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and a frequency distribution of the number of letters in the English alphabet in the surnames was found as follows:




Number of letters



Number of surnames





1 − 4

4 − 6

6 − 8

8 − 12

12 − 20



6

30

44

16

4




(i) Draw a histogram to depict the given information.

(ii) Write the class interval in which the maximum number of surname lie.

Answer 1

Number of letters:      2-4 / 4-6 / 6-8 / 8-12 / 12-14

Number of surnames : 6  /  30 / 44 /   16 /   4
 
Now it has become very easy to depict it on histogram.
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