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Frequency Tables Grade 10

Read and fill in a frequency table, for example find a missing count or how many learners scored below 50.

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Question 2.1 · November 2024 · Paper 2 · Provincial · 2 marks

The weight of the boxers who underwent fitness and health checks is shown in the frequency table below. $Diagram for this question$

2.1 Complete the cumulative frequency column provided in the table in the ANSWER BOOK.(2)

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3. Question 9.2.1 · November 2023 · Paper 1 · Provincial · 3 marks
9.2 A cellphone distribution company investigated the number of defective phones that they obtain from two suppliers, Axis Phones and Direct Phones. They recorded their findings in a contingency table, shown below.

Answer the questions that follow. $Diagram for question 9.2$
9.2.1 Determine the values of $a$ , $b$ and $c$ .(3)
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1. ✓
  $a = 28$ $a = 28$
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
2. ✓
  $b = 86$ $b = 86$
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3. ✓
  $c = 216$ $c = 216$
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
4. Question 5.4 · September 2024 · Provincial · 2 marks
The following Life Sciences marks, for a test out of 50, were recorded from 15 grade 10 learners at a certain school.
5.4 The pass mark for the Life Sciences test was 30%. How many learners passed?(2)
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1. ✓
  Pass mark $30% of 50 = 15$
  1 mark · Calculate with percentages
2. ✓
  AnswerLearners with marks $\geq 15$ : $13$ learners passed
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
5. Question WE6 · Siyavula Grade 10 Mathematics, 10.2 Measures of central tendency, Worked example 6 · 2 marks
WE6 Find the mode of the data set ${2; 2; 3; 4; 4; 4; 6; 6; 7; 8; 8; 10; 10}$ .(2)
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  Count each valueCount the number of times each value appears:
  $2$ appears $2$ times; $3$ appears $1$ time; $4$ appears $3$ times; $6$ appears $2$ times; $7$ appears $1$ time; $8$ appears $2$ times; $10$ appears $2$ times.
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
2. ✓
  Mode $4$ is the only value that appears $3$ times. All the other values appear fewer than $3$ times.
  Mode $= 4$
  1 mark · Find the mode or modal class
6. Question WE5 · Siyavula Grade 11 Mathematics, 11.2 Histograms, Worked example 5 · 4 marks
WE5 The following data represent the heights of $16$ adults in centimetres.
$162; 168; 177; 147; 189; 171; 173; 168$
$178; 184; 165; 173; 179; 166; 168; 165$
Divide the data into $5$ equal length intervals between $140 cm$ and $190 cm$ and draw a histogram.(4)
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  IntervalsTo have $5$ intervals of the same length between $140$ and $190$ , we need an interval length of $10$ .
  The intervals are $(140; 150]$ ; $(150; 160]$ ; $(160; 170]$ ; $(170; 180]$ and $(180; 190]$ .
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
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  Counts $(140; 150]$ : $1$ ; $(150; 160]$ : $0$ ; $(160; 170]$ : $7$ ; $(170; 180]$ : $6$ ; $(180; 190]$ : $2$
  1 mark · Read and complete a frequency table
3. ✓
  Bars on the intervalsDraw one rectangle on each interval of the height axis, from $140$ to $190$ , with no gaps between the intervals.
  1 mark · Draw a histogram, polygon or ogive
4. ✓
  Heights of the barsThe heights of the rectangles are the counts: $1$ , $0$ , $7$ , $6$ and $2$ (see the histogram). $Memo diagram$
  1 mark · Draw a histogram, polygon or ogive

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