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Lesson 2-9: Cumulative Frequency Tables
Learning Goals:
#7: What is cumulative frequency and how do we interpret cumulative frequency
tables?

Warm-Up:
10
1. The number of hours that a professional footballer
trains each day in the month of June is represented 9
in the following histogram
8

7
a. Write down the modal number of hours
trained each day. number of days 6

3
b. Calculate the mean number of hours he trains
each day. 2

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
number of hours

Cumulative Frequency
What is cumulative frequency?

Example 1-- The standard table

The table below shows the number of minutes students were late for their IB math class. There are a total of 80 students
in the IB math class. Fill in the column to show cumulative frequencies.
Time t Number of
Cumulative Frequency
(mins) Students

0<t≤5 10

5 < t ≤ 10 16
You know you are
10 < t ≤ 15 30 right if…

15 < t ≤ 20 22

20 < t ≤ 25 2
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Example 2—A “less than” Table
A golf club has 200 members. Their ages are shown in the frequency table below

Age (a years) Frequency

0 ≤ a < 10 8

10 ≤ a < 20 26

20 ≤ a < 30 32

30 ≤ a < 40 45

40 ≤ a < 50 37

50 ≤ a < 60 29

60 ≤ a < 70 16

70 ≤ a < 80 7

Let’s practice!

1) The following table shows the times, to the nearest minute, taken by 100 students to complete a
mathematics task.

Time (t) minutes 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40

Number of 7 13 25 28 20 7
students
Construct both types of cumulative frequency tables.

STANDARD C.F. TABLE “LESS THAN” TABLE

Time (t) minutes Cumulative Frequency Time (t) minutes Cumulative Frequency
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2) The table below shows the percentage, to the nearest whole number, scored by candidates in an
examination.

Marks (%) 0–9 10–19 20–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–69 70–79 80–89 90–100
Frequency 2 7 8 13 24 30 6 5 3 2

The following is the cumulative frequency table for the marks. Marks (%) Cumulative frequency
(a) Calculate the values of s and of t. < 9.5 2
< 19.5 9
< 29.5 s
< 39.5 30
< 49.5 54
< 59.5 84
< 69.5 t
< 79.5 95
< 89.5 98
< 100 100
Interpreting Cumulative Frequency Tables
3) The cumulative frequency table below shows the ages of 200 students at a college.
a. What are the values of m and n?

b. How many students are younger

than 20?

c. What is the modal age of students?

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Practice:
1. The local council has been monitoring the number of cars parked near a supermarket on an hourly basis. The results are
displayed below.

NOTE!

a. Write down the value of w. Make sure to use the

frequency column for
L2 in your calculator!!!!

Never use cumulative

b. Calculate the IQR of the above information.
frequency in your
calculator!

2. The table below shows the percentage, to the nearest whole number, scored by candidates in an examination.

Marks (%) 0–9 10–19 20–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–69 70–79 80–89 90–100
Frequency 2 7 8 13 24 30 6 5 3 2

The following is the cumulative frequency table for the marks.

a. Calculate the value of s.

b. Calculate the estimated mean

c. What is the modal percentage on this test?

d. State the standard deviation.

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Lesson 2-9: Homework

1. The table below shows the number of words in the extended essays of an IB class.

Number of
3200w3400 3400w3600 3600w3800 3800w4000 4000w4200
words
Frequency 2 5 8 17 3

Cumulative
Frequency

Fill in the row to the table to construct a cumulative frequency table for this data.

2. The table shows the number of children in 50 families.

a. Find the values of m, p and q

b. Write down the value of T.

c. Calculate the median of the data above.

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3. The box plot below summarizes the averages of IB Math Studies Students in Quarter 2.

Find and interpret the following statistics from the boxplot above
Value Interpretation

Min 25

Lower Q 55

Median 70

Upper Q 85

Max 98

Range 98-25
=73
85-55
IQR
=30

3. In the following ordered data, the mean is 6 and the median is 5.

2, b, 3, a, 6, 9, 10, 12

Find each of the following

(a) the value of a;

(b) the value of b.