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Question 4
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 two fruits are liked by equal number of students ?
(a) A and M (b) M and B (c) B and O (d) B and G

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Solution

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 banana and grapes are liked by an equal number of students i.e. 8.


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