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The document explains how to construct two-way frequency tables for two categorical variables, providing examples related to soup orders and student surveys. It defines joint frequencies and marginal frequencies, illustrating their significance in data representation. The document also includes exercises for completing frequency tables based on given information.

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constructing-two-way-frequency-tables

The document explains how to construct two-way frequency tables for two categorical variables, providing examples related to soup orders and student surveys. It defines joint frequencies and marginal frequencies, illustrating their significance in data representation. The document also includes exercises for completing frequency tables based on given information.

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Constructing Two-Way Frequency Tables


Two-way frequency tables show frequencies for two categorical, or
qualitative, variables. Frequency is the number of times a particular event occurs.

For example, the two-way frequency table below shows information about the number of soup orders
placed at Silver City Diner yesterday. The variables are soup type and bowl size.

Values in the body of the table are called joint


frequencies. Each joint frequency tells about a Tomato Chicken
Total
combination of the two variables. For example, Basil Noodle
there were 21 orders for small bowls of tomato
basil soup. Small
21 26 47
Bowl
Values in the total row and column, with the Large
19 22 41
exception of the total for the entire table, are Bowl
called marginal frequencies. Each marginal
frequency tells the total for a category. For Total 40 48 88
example, there were 40 orders for tomato
basil soup.

The bottom right corner shows the total for the table. So, there were 88 soup orders in all.

Try it yourself! Complete each two-way frequency table below based on the given information.

1 Jeremiah surveyed 86 students at his school 2 A total of 146 students bought tacos for
to see how many play a team sport. Of the lunch at Elm Middle School yesterday. Of
7th graders he surveyed, 18 play a team the students who bought hard-shell tacos,
sport and 12 do not. Of the 8th graders 44 got chicken filling and 37 got vegetarian
he surveyed, 32 play a team sport and filling. Of the students who bought soft-shell
24 do not. tacos, 38 got chicken filling and 27 got
vegetarian filling.

Team No Team Hard- Soft-


Total Total
Sport Sport Shell Shell

7th
Chicken
Graders

8th
Vegetarian
Graders

Total Total

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Constructing Two-Way Frequency Tables


Keep going! Complete each two-way frequency table below based on the given information. Then, answer
the question using the completed table.

3 Kai's Kabobs food truck offers lemonade 4 Last week, 71 people got their ears pierced
and flavored water. Yesterday, a total of at Accessories Plus, where a free pair of
26 adults and 12 children ordered lemonade. pearl or stone earrings is included with every
Also, a total of 29 adults and 24 children piercing. Of those who got gold earrings,
ordered flavored water. 24 got pearls and 19 got stones. Of those
who got silver earrings, 16 got pearls.

Flavored
Lemonade Total Gold Silver Total
Water

Adults Pearls

Children Stones

Total Total

How many more people ordered flavored How many more people got pearl earrings

water than lemonade? than stone earrings?

5 On field day, the students at Park Middle 6 Bea sends a free sample with every order
School had a picnic lunch. Each student from her online store, Baths by Bea. Each
chose a fruit and a side. Of the students sample is either lavender scented or citrus
who chose chips, 66 chose an apple and scented. Last month, she sent 93 soap
48 chose grapes. Of the 103 students who samples, 47 of which were citrus scented.
chose pretzels, 59 chose an apple and the She also sent 71 lotion samples, 18 of which
rest chose grapes. were citrus scented.

Apple Grapes Total Soap Lotion Total

Chips Lavender

Pretzels Citrus

Total Total

How many more students chose apples How many more lavender samples did Bea
than grapes? send than citrus samples?

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