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Question
Explain the difference between a frequency distribution and a cumulative frequency distribution.
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Solution
Frequencies table or frequency distribution is a method to represent raw data in the form from which one can easily understand the information contained in a raw data , where as a table which plays the manner in which cumulative frequencies are distributed over various classes is called a cumulative frequency distribution.
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