Suppose 8 out of every 20 students are absent from school less than five days a year . predict how many students would be absent from school less than fivce days a year out of 40,000 students

40,000 divided by 20 equals 2,000. 8 times 2,000 equals 16,000 so 16,000 out of 40,000 students would be absent from school less than five days a year.

A frequency distribution table is a table that shows how often a data point or a group of data points appears in a given data set. To make a frequency distribution table, first divide the numbers over which the data ranges into intervals of equal length. Then count how many data points fall into each interval.

If there are many values, it is sometimes useful to go through all the data points in order and make a tally mark in the interval that each point falls. Then all the tally marks can be counted to see how many data points fall into each interval. The "tally system" ensures that no points will be missed.

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