100 surnames were randomly picked up from

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:

00 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone

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

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


Solution:

(i) Here, it can be observed that the data has class intervals of varying width. The proportion of the number of surnames per 2 letters interval can be calculated as follows.

100 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and

By taking the number of letters on x-axis and the proportion of the number of surnames per 2 letters interval on y-axis and choosing an appropriate scale (1 unit = 4 students for y axis), the histogram can be constructed as follows.

100 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and a frequency

(ii) The class interval in which the maximum number of surnames lies is 6 − 8 as it has 44 surnames in it i.e., the maximum for this data.

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