STATISTICS

FREQUENCY TABLES

EXAMPLE
Recorded below are the number of goals scored by a football team in the first 20 matches of
the season.

1 5 0 0 6 1 2 3 2 0
2 0 1 3 5 3 1 2 0 0

a) Record this data in a frequency table

Number of goals Tally Frequency

b) Record this data in a bar chart

NOTES
 The heights of the bars tell us the frequencies.
 In a bar chart the bars are always the same width.
 The number of goals scored is written underneath each bar.
 For discrete data, a bar chart may or may not have gaps between the bars. If there are
gaps, then the gaps must be the same width as each other.
Exercise:
1) Jo did an investigation into the colours of shirts worn by some football teams.
He recorded the colour of the shirts for each team.
There were only five different colours.
Jo then drew a frequency table and a bar chart.
Part of Jo’s frequency table is shown below.

Colour Tally Frequency

Red ││││ ││││

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Blue
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White ││││
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(a) Complete the frequency column for the three colours in Jo’s frequency table.

Part of Jo’s bar chart is shown below.

14

12

10
Frequency

0
Red Blue White Green Yellow

(b) Complete the bar chart for the colours Red, Blue and White.
(c) Which colour was the mode for the shirts of the football teams in Jo’s
investigation?

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(d) Work out the number of football teams in Simon’s investigation.

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2) The bar chart shows information about the numbers of hours Calvin and Ruth each
watched TV on six days last week.

On one day last week Calvin and Ruth watched TV for the same number of hours.

(a) Which day?

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(b) Write down the number of hours that Ruth watched TV on Thursday.

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On Saturday, Calvin watched 8 hours of TV and Ruth watched 6 hours of TV.

(c) (i) Show this information on the bar chart.

 (ii) Express the ratio 8 : 6 in its simplest form.

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On Saturday, Calvin watched sport for 25% of the 8 hours he watched TV.

(d) Work out 25% of 8.

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3) Ben throws a dice 20 times.

He records the score for each throw.
Here are his scores.
4 1 2 2 5 1 6 2 3 4

2 5 4 5 1 6 1 3 2 6

(a) Complete the frequency table for his scores.

Score Tally Frequency

(b) Write down the mode of his scores.

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(c) Find the range of his scores.

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(d) Find the mean of his scores.

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(d) Find the median of his scores.

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