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Question
Thirty students were interviewed to find out what they want to be in future. Their responses are listed as below:
doctor, engineer, doctor, pilot, officer, doctor, engineer, doctor, pilot, officer, pilot, engineer, officer, pilot, doctor, engineer, pilot, officer, doctor, officer, doctor, pilot, engineer, doctor, pilot, officer, doctor, pilot, doctor, engineer
Arrange the data in a table using tally marks.
Solution
On arranging the given data in a table using tally marks, we get the following table
| Future profession | Tally marks | Number of students |
| Doctor | `cancel(bb|bb|bb|bb|)``cancel(bb|bb|bb|bb|)` | 10 |
| Engineer | `cancel(bb|bb|bb|bb|)` | | 6 |
| Officer | `cancel(bb|bb|bb|bb|)` | | 6 |
| Pilot | `cancel(bb|bb|bb|bb|)` ||| | 8 |
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