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Describing Varaiation using a Histogram: Delivery times in hours

Observation number Value Bin Range Frequency


1 63 46.0 1
2 68 51.2 7
3 53 53.8 5
4 64 56.4 8
5 51 59.0 22
6 71 61.6 14
7 66 64.2 23
8 62 66.8 10
9 69 69.4 6
10 62 72.0 4
11 60
12 53
13 63
14 58
15 59
16 60 Historam of Delivery Data
17 57 25
18 50
19 57 20
20 57
21 59
15
22 64
23 64
24 63 10

25 55
26 63 5
27 65
28 65 0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
29 53
30 62
31 70
32 62
33 64
34 62
35 61
36 55
37 63
38 65
39 61
40 61
41 61
42 60
43 69
44 53
45 55
46 48
47 51
48 60
49 51
50 65
51 58
52 59
53 56
54 62
55 69
56 58
57 63
58 59
59 66
60 71
61 60
62 66
63 71
64 59
65 46
66 58
67 50
68 59
69 63
70 60
71 64
72 62
73 66
74 60
75 58
76 65
77 67
78 59
79 59
80 54
81 57
82 55
83 64
84 62
85 64
86 51
87 59
88 59
89 53
90 57
91 61
92 65
93 62
94 61
95 59
96 67
97 57
98 55
99 56
100 61
Average 60.25
Standard deviation 5.28
Maximum 71
Minimum 46
Range 25
Number of bins 10
Bin size 2.6
Plotting a histogram in Excel:
Step 1. Select cells D4:D13
Step 2. In the formula bar, type the formula:
=FREQUENCY(B4:B103, C4:C13). Press CTRL + SHIFT + ENTER
after typing the formula in Step 2.
To construct the column chart based on this frequency data.
Step 1. Select cells D4:D13
Step 2. Click Insert tab on ribbon
Step 3. Click Insert Column chart button in the charts group
Step 4. Click the Clustered Column button in the 2-D column
section

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