One Rule That Must Always Be Followed in Constructing Frequency

question 8

Multiple Choice

One rule that must always be followed in constructing frequency distributions is that _______.

• A) the number of classes must be less than 10
• B) each data point can only fall into one class
• C) the width of each class is equal to the range
• D) the number of intervals must be an odd number
• E) the class intervals must overlap

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