Question

The value of π up to50decimal places is given below:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

(i) Make a frequencydistribution of the digits from 0 to 9 after the decimal point.

(ii) What are the mostand the least frequently occurring digits?

Answer 1

(i) By observation of the digits after decimal point, the requiredtable can be constructed as follows.

Digit	Frequency
0	2
1	5
2	5
3	8
4	4
5	5
6	4
7	4
8	5
9	8
Total	50

(ii) It can be observed from the above table that the least frequencyis 2 of digit 0, and the maximum frequency is 8 of digit 3 and 9.Therefore, the most frequently occurring digits are 3 and 9 and theleast frequently occurring digit is 0.