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Question: What do you mean by Frequency ?

Answer:

When collecting data the number of times a particular item occurs is called its frequency.

Shoe Size
Frequency

5
2
6
5
7
9
8
6
9
3

For example, suppose the shoe sizes of the 25 people in a class were recorded and the shoe size 7 occurred 9 times. Then the frequency of shoe size 7 was 9.

The table is called a frequency table. The information in the table can be illustrated using a frequency diagram.