Question

In the following statement, take the number of letters in a word as items and number of items a word (of the same size) repeats itself as frequencies. Prepare a discrete series.
"Success in the examination confers no absolute right to appointment unless government is satisfied after such an enquiry as may be considered necessary that the candidate is suitable in all respect for appointment."

Answer 1

In the given question, the size of the items refers to the number of alphabets in the word. Accordingly, in the given statement there are eight items with size equal to 2, namely, in, no, to, is, an, as, be, is, in. Similarly, there are 5 items with size equal to three, namely, the, may, the, all, for. In the similar manner, we can find the frequency corresponding to the various items.
The frequency distribution table is prepared in the following manner.

Size of Item	Tally Bars	Frequency
2		9
3		5
4		2
5		2
6		1
7		3
8		3
9		3
10		2
11		3
Total		$\sum f=33$