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What is cumulative frequency best described as?

A running total of frequencies

Why is cumulative frequency useful in statistics?

It finds median and quartiles easily

If frequencies are 4, 9, and 20, what is the third cumulative frequency?

33

What should the final cumulative frequency value equal?

The total number of items

When plotting cumulative frequency, which boundary do you use on the xx-axis?

Upper boundary of class interval

What is the S-shaped cumulative frequency curve called?

An ogive

To find the median from the graph, where do you go on the cumulative frequency axis?

Halfway up

If total frequency is 120, at what value on the yy-axis is the lower quartile (Q1Q1)?

30

How do you calculate the interquartile range (IQR)?

Q3Q1Q3 - Q1

What type of values do you get from a cumulative frequency graph of grouped data?

Estimates, not exact values

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