Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics Core and Extended CD-ROM

Core questions: 1 – 4
Extended questions: 5 – 8

Extended revision exercises: Data handling

Worksheet 20: Histograms and frequency
distribution diagrams
1 This histogram shows the masses of 150
roast chickens sold at a deli counter in
one week.

(a) What is the modal mass of the roast

chickens?

(b) What range of masses was recorded?

(c) How many roast chickens had a mass

of more than 1.8 kg?

(d) How many chickens had a mass

between 1.3 and 1.6 kilograms?

2 This histogram shows the frequency of

different marks in a mathematics test.

(a) What is the modal mark?

(b) A mark of 80 or higher is awarded an A.

How many students achieved an A?

(c) Can you tell how many students scored

less than 70% from this graph?
Explain why or why not.

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3 This table gives the mass, in kilograms, of 200 students. Draw a histogram to show this distribution.

Mass (kg) 40  m < 50 50  m <6 0 60  m < 70 70  m < 80 80  m < 90

Frequency 35 55 60 35 15

4 The ages of 33 young adults attending a youth camp are shown below.
12 15 17 18 16 17 18 19 20 18 11
16 13 14 15 17 19 18 17 19 18 12
13 15 15 16 17 19 20 18 15 15 23

(a) Organise the data using this frequency table.

Ages Frequency
10 ≤ age < 15
15 ≤ age < 20
20 ≤ age < 25

(b) Draw a histogram to represent the ages of the students.

5 Sandra recorded how long each of her classmates could hold their breath (in seconds). These are her
results:
8 12 23 40 22 45 34 27 19 20
12 22 37 42 39 37 21 43 39 24
15 29 19 28 23 40 32 19 25 31

(a) Using the class intervals of 1 ≤ time < 21, 21 ≤ time < 31, 31 ≤ time < 41 and 41 ≤ time < 46,
draw a grouped frequency table to show the data.
(b) What is the modal class of the data?
(c) Draw a histogram to show her results.

6 Anna came 4th out of 28 runners in a cross country race. What is her percentile ranking?

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7 The birth masses (in kg) of 100 babies born in a hospital during April were recorded. The results are
shown in the table.
Mass 0<m3 3 < m  3.5 3.5< m  4 4 < m  4.5 4.5 < m  6
No of
8 49 35 7 1
babies

(a) Make a cumulative frequency table for these 100 babies.

(b) Using a scale of 5 small squares to represent 1 kg on the horizontal axis and 5 small squares to
represent 10 babies on the vertical axis, draw a cumulative frequency diagram for this data.
(c) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find:
(i) the median birth mass
(ii) the upper quartile
(iii) the interquartile range
(iv) the number of babies with a mass greater than 3.5 kg.

8 A survey of several swimmers at a pool recorded the time (in minutes) which they swam on a particular
day. The table and the histogram below show the results, but some of the information is missing.

Swimming time (x minutes) Frequency density

0 ≤ x < 10 3
10 ≤ x < 15
15 ≤ x < 25 4.1
25 ≤ x < 30
30 ≤ x < 40 2.5

Copy and complete both the table and the histogram.

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