Q7 of 26 Page 245

The value of π up to 50 decimal places is given below:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510


(i) Make a frequency distribution of the digits from 0 to 9 after the decimal point.


(ii) What are the most and the least frequently occurring digits?

The parts of the questions are solved below:

(i) The frequency is given as follows:




















































DIGITS



FREQUENCY



0



2



1



5



2



5



3



8



4



4



5



5



6



4



7



4



8



5



9



8



Total



30



(ii) The digit having the least frequency occurs the least and the digit with highest frequency occurs the most.


Hence,


We can say that:


0 has its frequency as 2 and thus occurs least frequently while 3 and 9 have their frequency 8 and hence occur most frequently.


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5

A study was conducted to find out the concentration of sulphur dioxide in the air in parts per million (ppm) of a certain city. The data obtained for 30 days is as follows:

0.03 0.08 0.08 0.09 0.04 0.17


0.16 0.05 0.02 0.06 0.18 0.20


0.11 0.08 0.12 0.13 0.22 0.07


0.08 0.01 0.10 0.06 0.09 0.18


0.11 0.07 0.05 0.07 0.01 0.04


(i) Make a grouped frequency distribution table for this data with class intervals as0.00 - 0.04, 0.04 - 0.08, and so on.


(ii) For how many days, was the concentration of sulphur dioxide more than 0.11parts per million?

6

Three coins were tossed 30 times simultaneously. Each time the number of heads occurring was noted down as follows:

0 1 2 2 1 2 3 1 3 0


1 3 1 1 2 2 0 1 2 1


3 0 0 1 1 2 3 2 2 0


Prepare a frequency distribution table for the data given above.

8

Thirty children were asked about the number of hours they watched TV programmes 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 12


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


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

9

A company manufactures car batteries of a particular type. The lives (in years) of 40such batteries were recorded as follows:

2.6 3.0 3.7 3.2 2.2 4.1 3.5 4.5


3.5 2.3 3.2 3.4 3.8 3.2 4.6 3.7


2.5 4.4 3.4 3.3 2.9 3.0 4.3 2.8


3.5 3.2 3.9 3.2 3.2 3.1 3.7 3.4


4.6 3.8 3.2 2.6 3.5 4.2 2.9 3.6


Construct a grouped frequency distribution table for this data, using class intervals of size 0.5 starting from the interval 2 - 2.5