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Class Intervals - Histograms

The document explains how to group continuous variables into class intervals for analysis, using height as an example. It details the calculation of the mean, mode, and median from frequency distributions, and provides exercises for practice with age, correct answers, and weight data. Additionally, it emphasizes the use of histograms to represent class intervals visually.

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Class Intervals - Histograms

The document explains how to group continuous variables into class intervals for analysis, using height as an example. It details the calculation of the mean, mode, and median from frequency distributions, and provides exercises for practice with age, correct answers, and weight data. Additionally, it emphasizes the use of histograms to represent class intervals visually.

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Class Intervals: Histograms

When we work with continuous variables, they cannot be taken as isolated variable values, but must be
grouped into class intervals.
Example:
For a certain game, participants must be grouped according to height. The minimum height of a group of 30
participants is 1.46 m and the maximum is 1.76 m

Height Frequency Cumulative average value


Frequency of the interval

1,46 ≤ ℎ < 1,51 1 1 1,485

1,51 ≤ ℎ < 1,56 2 3 1,535

1,56 ≤ ℎ < 1,61 2 5 1,585

1,61 ≤ ℎ < 1,66 7 12 1,635

1,66 ≤ ℎ < 1,71 11 23 1,685

1,71 ≤ ℎ≤ 1,76 7 30 1,735

Histograms are used to represent class intervals.

Cumulative
frequency

Height

How to find the mean value of the interval?

The average of the class interval is calculated

1,46+1,51 2,97
2
= 2
=1,485 for each interval

Mean, mode and median:

The mean ( 𝑥 ) or average is the sum of the products of the mean value of each interval and its frequency,
divided by the total number of observations.

1,4850 · 1 + 1,535 · 2 + 1,585 · 2 + 1,635 · 7 + 1,685 · 11 + 1,735 · 7 49,85


𝑥= 30
= 30
≃ 1, 66
The average height of the participants is approximately 1,66 cm

The modal interval is the interval with the highest frequency, that is, 1,66 ≤ ℎ < 1,71
It can be said that the mode is the average value of the modal interval, that is, 1.685 cm

The interval that contains the median is the one whose cumulative frequency is half of the observations.
Places 15 and 16 correspond to the average values ​and are in the interval 1,66 ≤ ℎ < 1,71

It can be said that the median is the average value of the interval that contains it, that is, it is close to 1,685
cm

Activity
1- The table shows the ages of a group of people who attended an event.

a) Complete the table:

Ages Frequency Cumulative average value


frequency of the interval

24 ≤ 𝐴 < 32 108

32 ≤ 𝐴 < 40 76

40 ≤ 𝐴 < 48 40

48 ≤ 𝐴 < 56 64

56 ≤ 𝐴≤ 64 16

b) Find the average age.

c) Write the modal interval and the mode.

d) Write the median and the interval containing the median.

2- The following data corresponds to the number of correct answers per person in a test.

2 - 10 - 0 - 1 - 5 - 16 - 24 - 50 - 19 - 34 - 28 - 34 - 47 - 16 - 9 - 22 - 19 - 31 - 43

8 - 26 - 38 - 41 - 45 - 14 - 35 - 12 - 1 - 15 - 23 - 44 - 37 - 32 - 16 - 21 - 7 - 36 - 29

a) Complete the table:

Correct Frequency Cumulative average value


answers frequency of the interval

0 ≤ 𝐴 <10

10 ≤ 𝐴 < 20

20 ≤ 𝐴 < 30

30 ≤ 𝐴 <40

40 ≤ 𝐴≤ 50
b) Find the average number of correct answers

c) Write the modal interval and the mode.

d) Write the median and the interval containing the median.

e) Draw the corresponding histogram

3-The weight in kilograms of each of the 24 packages of strawberries is:

a)​ Complete the table:

weight in Frequency Cumulative average value


kilograms frequency of the interval

1,60 <1,65

1,65 ≤ 𝐴 < 1,70

1,70 ≤ 𝐴 < 1,75

1, 75 ≤ 𝐴 < 1, 80

1, 80 ≤ 𝐴≤1,85

b)​ What is the mean price of the packages?

c)​ How many packages weigh less than 1.75kg?

d)​ How many packages weigh more than mean?

e)​ What is the median price?

f)​ Draw the corresponding histogram.

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