Question 5
The choices of the fruits of 42 students in a class are as follows:
A, O, B, M, A, G, B, G, A, G, B, M, A, G,
M, A, B, G, M, B, A, O, M, O, G, B, O, M,
G, A, A, B, M, O, M, G, B, A, M, O, M, O,
Where A, B, G, M and O, stands for the fruits Apple Banana, Grapes, Mango and Orange, respectively.
Which fruit is liked by most of the students?
(a) O (b) G (c) M (d) A
In order to deduce any information from the given data, we will arrange the given data in a table, using tally marks.We use the repetitions to construct a tally table as shown below.The number 1 is represented as I. The number 2 is represented as II and so on. But number 5 is represented as
Table with tally marks from the given information is shown below
From the table, we can observe that Mango is liked by most of the students.