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Introductory Statistics

Found in: Page 127

Book edition OER 2018

Author(s) Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean

Pages 902 pages

ISBN 9781938168208

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Sixty-five randomly selected car salespersons were asked the number of cars they generally sell in one week. Fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars. Complete the table.

The completed table of $65$ randomly selected car salespersons is as follow:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS :

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Step 1: Content Introduction

Each frequency from a frequency distribution table is added to the sum of its predecessors to get the cumulative frequency.

Relative frequency is the proportion of a certain event's frequency to the total frequency in a statistical experiments.

Step 2: Content Explanation

The completed table of $65$ randomly selected car salespersons is as follow:

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