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Additional practice questions

6.3. Histograms

Practice 1
1) This bar chart shows the favourite colours of a group of students.

a. State which colour is the most popular.


b. State which colour is the least popular.
c. Write down how many students the bar chart represents.
d. Copy and complete this table using the information from the bar chart.

Favourite Blue Red Green Yellow Orange


colour
Number of
students

2) A group of 25 children measure each other’s heights and record the answers by
putting a tick on a chart:

Height (cm) Tick


135–139
140–144 ✓
145–149
150–154 ✓✓✓
155–159
160–164 ✓
165–169 ✓

a. Suppose the heights are rounded off to the nearest centimeter.


State which class would you put a tick for a child whose height is:
i. 140.4 cm ii. 149.2 cm iii 149.9 cm
iv. 161.3 cm v. 164.8 cm vi. 139.6 cm
b. State which class would you put a height of
i. 159.5 cm ii. 139.5 cm iii. 144.5 cm

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c. Write down the least height belonging to the class 155–159 cm
d. Write down the class boundaries for these classes.
i. 135–139 cm ii. 140–144 cm
iii. 145–149 cm iv. 150–154 cm

3) This is the completed frequency table for the 25 children.

Height (cm) Frequency


135–139 1
140–144 3
145–149 4
150–154 7
155–159 5
160–164 4
165–169 1

The histogram for this table has been started.


Copy and complete it. Write a title for it.

4) The histogram shows the results of weighing 100 apples to the nearest gram.
a. Find how many apples are in the class 110–119 grams.

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b. Draw a frequency table to show the information in the graph.
Use classes of 100 –109, 110 –119, …, 150 –159.
c. Write down
i. the lower boundary of the fourth class
ii. the upper boundary of the fifth class.
d. Write down
i. the minimum possible mass of an apple
ii. the maximum possible mass of an apple.

5) In a biology experiment, the lengths of the leaves of a plant are measured and
recorded to the nearest millimeter. The results are shown in the table.

Length (mm) Frequency


20–24 1
25–29 4
30–34 8
35–39 18
40–44 25
45–49 24
50–54 17
55–59 2
60–64 1

Draw a histogram of the results. Use one small division to represent one unit,
as in the graph in Question 3.

6) The heights of 154 boys, to the nearest centimeter, are:

Height 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172
(cm)
Frequency 4 5 6 9 16 22 27 25 18 11 6 3 2

a. Redraw the frequency table using intervals of 160–161, 162–163, …, 172–173.


b. Write down the boundaries of the interval 164–165 cm.
c. Calculate the boundary between the interval 166–167 cm and 168–169 cm.
d. Draw a histogram using the intervals in part a.

7) Yuri decided to count the number of weeds in one square meter of grass.
He chose 80 plots of one square meter. The results for each square meter are:

22 24 21 12 8 14 34 62 54 6 28 42 35 22 14 18 9 24 12 18
31 47 17 9 35 24 41 52 38 19 5 23 31 65 32 46 15 13 74 22
9 13 22 55 47 52 14 13 21 19 52 33 71 12 22 17 58 42 31 16
2 15 31 73 45 31 12 8 4 33 42 57 61 48 43 27 14 5 14 26

a. Organise this information in a grouped frequency table.


b. Draw a histogram to represent the information graphically.

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8) Simi recorded the numbers of vans per five minutes that drove down her street
over a period of eight hours. Her results were:

Number of vans (x) Frequency


1≤x≤5 12
6 ≤ x ≤ 10 23
11 ≤ x ≤ 15 31
16 ≤ x ≤ 20 13
21 ≤ x ≤ 25 9
26 ≤ x ≤ 30 5
31 ≤ x ≤ 35 2
36 ≤ x ≤ 40 1

a. Write down the lower and upper boundaries of the fourth class.
b. Draw a histogram to represent the information.

9) The numbers of visitors per hour to the Taj Mahal are recorded in the table.

Time (t) Number of visitors


09:00 ≤ t < 10:00 324
10:00 ≤ t < 11:00 356
11:00 ≤ t < 12:00 388
12:00 ≤ t < 13:00 435
13:00 ≤ t < 14:00 498
14:00 ≤ t < 15:00 563
15:00 ≤ t < 16:00 436
16:00 ≤ t < 17:00 250
17:00 ≤ t < 18:00 232

Draw a histogram to represent this information.

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Answers

Practice 1
1) a. Orange b. Blue c. 30
d. Number of students: 3, 6, 5, 7, 9
2) a. i. 140–144 cm ii. 145–149 cm iii. 150–154 cm
iv. 160–164 cm v. 165–169 cm vi. 140–144 cm
b. i. 160–164 cm ii. 140–144 cm iii. 145–149 cm
c. 154.5 cm
d. i. 134.5 cm and 139.5 cm ii. 139.5 cm and 144.5 cm
iii. 144.5 cm and 149.5 cm iv. 149.5 cm and 154.5 cm
3)

4) a. 15
b. The frequencies are: 2, 15, 45, 27, 7, 4
c. i. 129.5 g ii. 150.5 g
d. i. 99.5 g ii. 159.5 g (to 1 d.p.)
5)

6) a. The frequencies are: 9, 15, 38, 52, 29, 9, 2


b. 163.5 cm and 165.5 cm
c. 167.5 cm

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7) a.
Number of weeds Frequency
0 ≤ x < 10 10
10 ≤ x < 20 21
20 ≤ x < 30 14
30 ≤ x < 40 12
40 ≤ x < 50 10
50 ≤ x < 60 7
60 ≤ x < 70 3
70 ≤ x < 80 3

b.

8) a. The lower boundary of the fourth group is 15.5 and the upper boundary is 20.5.
b.

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9)

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