Thirty children were asked about the number of hours they watched TV programes in the previous week.

Question:

Thirty children were asked about the number of hours they watched TV programes in the previous week. The results were found as follows:

1, 6, 2, 3, 5, 12, 5, 8, 4, 8

10, 3, 4, 12, 2, 8, 15, 1, 17, 6

3, 2, 8, 5, 9, 6, 8, 7, 14, 2.

(i) Make a frequency distribution table for this data, taking class width 5 and one of the class intervals as 5 - 10.

(ii) How many children watched television for 15 or more hours a week.

Solution:

(i) Class intervals will be 0 - 5, 5 - 10, 10 - 15 …

The grouped frequency distribution table is as follows:

(ii) The number of children who watched TV for 15 or more hours a week is 2(i.e number of children in class interval 15 - 20).

 

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