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10 Building Histograms From Data Sets

The document discusses how to build histograms from data sets, specifically focusing on determining class width and identifying class intervals with the largest frequency. It provides examples with calculations for class width and frequency distribution based on given data sets. The solutions indicate that for the first example, the class width is 8 and the interval with the largest frequency is 8-15, while for the second example, the appropriate histogram uses class intervals of 70-75, 76-81, 82-87, 88-93, and 94-99.

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10 Building Histograms From Data Sets

The document discusses how to build histograms from data sets, specifically focusing on determining class width and identifying class intervals with the largest frequency. It provides examples with calculations for class width and frequency distribution based on given data sets. The solutions indicate that for the first example, the class width is 8 and the interval with the largest frequency is 8-15, while for the second example, the appropriate histogram uses class intervals of 70-75, 76-81, 82-87, 88-93, and 94-99.

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Topic: Building histograms from data sets

Question: If we divide the data set into 6 classes, what will be the class
width?

12, 7, 9, 5, 8, 17, 28, 31, 17, 25, 13, 14, 6, 2, 20, 39, 45, 16, 33, 28

Answer choices:

A 6

B 7

C 8

D 9

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Solution: C

First, we need to put the data points in ascending order,

2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 17, 20, 25, 28, 28, 31, 33, 39, 45

so that we can calculate the range.

Range = 45 − 2 = 43

Now we divide the range by the number of classes in order to find the
class width.

43
≈ 7.2
6

Since we have to round up to the nearest integer (rounding down would


mean that we wouldn’t be able to span the entire data set), the class width
will be 8.

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Topic: Building histograms from data sets

Question: When constructing a histogram from the data set, which class
interval will have the largest frequency if we use 6 classes?

12, 7, 9, 5, 8, 17, 28, 31, 17, 25, 13, 14, 6, 2, 20, 39, 45, 16, 33, 28

Answer choices:

A 0−7

B 8 − 15

C 16 − 23

D 32 − 39

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Solution: B

Put the data in ascending order.

2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 17, 20, 25, 28, 28, 31, 33, 39, 45

Then the range is 45 − 2 = 43. Divide the range by the number of classes to
find the class width.

43
≈ 7.2
6

We have to round up, so the class width will be 8. The smallest data value
is 2, so we can start the first interval from 0, and the class intervals will be

Class interval Frequency

0-7 4

8 - 15 5

16 - 23 4

24 - 31 4

32 - 39 2

40 - 47 1

Therefore, the class interval with the largest frequency will be 8 − 15.

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Topic: Building histograms from data sets

Question: The exam scores for 15 students are listed below. If we want to
use 5 bins to organize the data, which chart is the correct histogram?

85, 91, 94, 74, 88, 98, 83, 73, 86, 89, 93, 80, 77, 79, 95

Answer choices:

Exam scores Exam scores


6 6

5 5
Frequency

Frequency
4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

0 0
73-77 78-82 83-87 88-92 93-97 70-75 76-81 82-87 88-93 94-99

A Score C Score

Exam scores Exam scores


6 6

5 5
Frequency

Frequency

4 4

3 3

2 2

1 1

0 0
73-77 78-82 83-87 88-92 93-97 70-75 76-81 82-87 88-93 94-99

B Score D Score

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Solution: D

Put the data points in ascending order,

73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 83, 85, 86, 88, 89, 91, 93, 94, 95, 98

and calculate the range.

98 − 73 = 25

To find class width, divide the range by the number of classes.

25
=5
5

But if we use this class width, we’ll fall just short of including the complete
range of the data. So to make sure we include the smallest and largest
values, we’ll use a class width of 6.

Now we can set up the class intervals and count their respective
frequencies.

Class interval Frequency

70 - 75 2

76 - 81 3

82 - 87 3

88 - 93 4

94 - 99 3

Now we can sketch the histogram.

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Exam scores
6

4
Frequency

0
70-75 76-81 82-87 88-93 94-99

Score

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