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When instructing a frequency distribution, why is it a good idea to add up the frequencies? this question is challenging your understanding of frequency distributions, which is one way of organizing qualitative data and statistics.
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Remember that a frequency distribution shows the number of occurrences or the frequency of occurrences of different types of data.
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So if we have two data types a and b, if a occurs 30 times, b occurs 20 times, the bar graph will show 30 for a, 20 for b.
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We want to ask if we're just counting raw frequencies, why is it good idea to add up the frequencies? first and foremost, it's important to add up the frequencies in case you need to calculate relative frequencies.
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Relative frequencies are the percent or proportional representation of each category.
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So for a and v i just listed, we're the 30a, 20b, the total be 50...