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Chapter 2: Q.14 (page 127)

What does the relative frequency column in Table 2.42 sum to? Why?

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The relative frequency sums to1.

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Content Introduction

Below is the complete table of randomly selected car salespersons.

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Content Explanation

The relative frequency sum up to 0.22+0.29+0.18+0.14+0.17=1. Relative frequency is the proportion of a certain event's frequency to the total frequency in a statistical experiments. Here the number of favorable events is the number of cars generally sold by car sales person in one week. The total probability cannot exceed1, therefore relative frequency is1.

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