Relative Frequency

Name: ___________________________
Directions: Graph the following linear inequalities.

1. A survey of 3,000 who bought a new car showed that 900 people had
mechanical issues within the first 2 year.

a. What is the relative frequency of the people that had mechanical issues?

The frequency of people who had mechanical issues was 0.3

b. What is the relative frequency of the people that did not have mechanical
issues?

The frequency of people who DIDN'T have mechanical issues was 0.7

c. What does the relative frequencies in part (a) and (b) tell you about the
new car and how reliable it has been? Explain your reasoning.

Only 30% of the people had mechanical issues. This percentage of people probably help the motor
company to watch out for any failures in future car models.

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2. The frequency table below shows the amount of students that scored
within a certain grade range on the final exam in English.

Grade No. of Students

A 4
B 6
C 4
D 3
F 3

a. Calculate the relative frequencies of each grade.

A=0.2
B=0.3
C=0.2
D&F=0.15

b. Using the relative frequencies what grade did the most students receive?

Grade B

3. You survey your class to find out the types of pets they have at home.
Below are the results:

Dog, Dog, Cat, Cat, Cat, Dog, Hamster, Fish, Dog, Fish
a. Make a frequency table for the results.

Hamster 1
Dog 4
Cat 3
Fish 2

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 b. Calculate the relative frequencies of the each animal type.

Hamster 0.1
Dog 0.4
Cat 0.3
Fish 0.2

c. Using the relative frequencies explain which animals are most and least
popular. Be specific and explain your reasoning.

The most popular pets are Dogs, and then cats becasue most of the students have these animals as
pets.

4. Your softball team played 20 games during the season. The following is a
list of the team’s wins (W) and losses (L).

W, W, L, L, L, W, L, L, W, W, W, L, W, W, L, L, W, W, W, W
a. Make a frequency table for the wins/losses.

Losses 8
Wins 12

b. What is the relative frequency of the wins? Show your calculation.

Wins 12/20 = 0.6

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 c. What is the relative frequency of the losses? Show your calculation.

Losses 8/20 = 0.4

d. Using relative frequencies to explain if your team had a good season.

Explain your reasoning.

The team had more wins than losses but they can always do better.

5. You survey the students in your class to find out what kinds of movies they
like to watch. The students were given the following choices: Comedy (C),
Horror (H), Drama (D), Action (A), Romance (R).

The following were the results of your survey:

C, C, R, R, D, R, H, H, C, A, A, R, A, A, A, R, R,
H, H, H, C, H, A, R, D, D, D, D, H, R
a. Make a frequency table for the movie genres.

Comedy 4
Horror 7
Drama 5
Action 6
Romance 8

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 b. What is the relative frequency of the people that chose comedies? Show
your calculation.

Comedy 4/30 = 0.13...

Horror 7/30 = 0.23...
Drama 5/30 = 0.16...
Action 6/30 = 0.2
Romance 8/30 = 0.26...

c. What is the relative frequency of the people that chose horror? Show
your calculation.

Horror 7/30 = 0.23...

d. What is the relative frequency of the people that chose drama? Show
your calculation.

Drama 5/30 = 0.16...

e. What is the relative frequency of the people that chose action? Show
your calculation.

Action 6/30 = 0.2

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 f. What is the relative frequency of the people that chose romance? Show
your calculation.

Romance 8/30 = 0.26...

g. Use the relative frequencies calculated in parts (b) – (f) to explain which
genre of movies is the most popular with your class. Explain your reasoning.

Half of the people watch Romance and Horror because the most popular Cinema genres right now are
these two.

h. If you were having a party for your class which movie genre would you be
least likely to pick? Explain your reasoning.

Comedy be the least likely to choose because not many people choosed this genre.