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OCR: REQUENCY is the number of times some- thing occurs. Distribution frequency the number of times something occurs within certain range for example the number people who are buying CDs (compact discs) within certain age range To invest igate the frequency with which certain groups of people buy CDs, we migh give each group num ber ot letter For example: Buyers aged 11 to 14 years Group Buyers aged 1 years Group Buyers aged years Group Buyers aged years Group Buyers aged 26 30 years Group We could then organize a survey of indi vidual peo ple buying one or more CDs in shop. We would ask them which group they are and how many CDs they are buying. Imagine that we got the following raw data from our survey B C 2,I B,D,D, R C,A,E B,CD,F We could then draw up a chart based on these figures that wou ...