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

$\begin{matrix} Number of letters & Number of surnames 1 - 4 & 6 4 - 6 & 30 6 - 8 & 44 8 - 12 & 16 12 - 20 & 4 \end{matrix}$
(ii) Write the class interval in which the maximum number of surname lie.

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(ii)The class interval in which the maximum number of surnames lies is 6−8 as it has 44 surnames in it i.e., the maximum for this data.

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