270 MATHEMATICS
14.6 Summary
In this chapter, you have studied the following points:
- Facts or figures, collected with a definite purpose, are called data.
- Statistics is the area of study dealing with the presentation, analysis and interpretation of
data. - How data can be presented graphically in the form of bar graphs, histograms and frequency
polygons. - The three measures of central tendency for ungrouped data are:
(i) Mean : It is found by adding all the values of the observations and dividing it by the
total number of observations. It is denoted by x.
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