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The marks scored by 40 students of class VIII in mathematics are given below:
81, 55, 68, 79, 85, 43, 29, 68, 54, 73, 47, 35, 72, 64, 95, 44, 50, 77, 64, 35, 79, 52, 45, 54, 70, 83, 62, 64, 72, 92, 84, 76, 63, 43, 54, 38, 73, 68, 52, 54.
Prepare a frequency distribution with class size of 10 marks.
Solution
The frequency table of the marks scored by 40 students of class VIII in mathematics is given below:
| Mark | Tally Marks | Frequency |
| 20\[-\]30 | | | 1 |
| 30\[-\]40 | ||| | 3 |
| 40\[-\]50 | 5 | |
| 50\[-\]60 | 8 | |
| 60\[-\]70 | 8 | |
| 70\[-\]80 | 9 | |
| 80\[-\]90 | |||| | 4 |
| 90\[-\]100 | || | 1 |
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