# NCERT Class 9 Solutions: Statistics (Chapter 14) Exercise 14.3-Part 4 (For CBSE, ICSE, IAS, NET, NRA 2022)

Glide to success with Doorsteptutor material for CBSE/Class-9 : get questions, notes, tests, video lectures and more- for all subjects of CBSE/Class-9.

Q-9 100 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and a frequency distribution of the number of letters of the English alphabet in the surnames was found as follows:

 Number of letters Number of surnames 1 - 4 6 4 - 6 30 6 - 8 44 8 - 12 16 12 - 20 4
1. Draw a histogram to depict the given information.
2. Write the class interval in which the maximum number of surname lies.

Solution (I) :

The problem with this data is that the class intervals are of varying width. The principle behind histograms is that the area of each bar represents the fraction of a frequency (probability) distribution within each bin (class, interval) . Therefore, as the bar in a histogram is spread across bins, it is squished in height (that is, area remains the same) . Here we choose the bin size to be 2 letters. So we divide the frequency (number of surnames names) into bins of 2 letters.

For example, number of surnames with 1 – 4 letters is 6 however since 4 – 1 = 3, this frequency is not spread across 2 letters but 3. The height in frequency representation in histogram is the proportion of the number of surnames per 2 letters interval, that is .

We calculate the histogram heights for other intervals as follows:

 Number of letters Frequency (Number of surnames) Width of class Height of rectangle 1 - 4 6 3 4 - 6 30 2 6 - 8 44 2 8 - 12 16 4 12 - 20 4 8

Now plot the histogram

On x-axis represent the class intervals of the number of letters and on y-axis the proportion of the number of surnames per 2 letters interval.

Solution (II) :

The maximum number of surnames lies in interval of 6 - 8 and it has 44 surnames.

Developed by: