Question

Draw a “less than type” given and “more than type” given for the following distribution and hence obtain the median from the graph.

C.I.	20-30	30-40	40-50	50-60	60-70	70-80	80-90
Frequency	8	12	24	6	10	15	25

Answer 1

Hint:
Here, we will use the concept of the less than and more than type ogive to find out the respective curve. First, we will create a table of the less than type ogive then we will plot it on the graph. Then we will create another table for the more than type ogive and then we will plot this more than type ogive on the graph.

Complete step by step solution:
Here we will create the table for the “less than type” given. Therefore, we get

Less than	Cumulative frequency
Less than 30	8
Less than 40	20
Less than 50	44
Less than 60	50
Less than 70	60
Less than 80	75
Less than 90	100

Now we will plot this “less than type” ogive on the graph from the table of the less than type ogive, we get

Here, the blue line represents “less than type”.
Now we will find the table for the “more than type” ogive. Therefore, we get

More than	Cumulative frequency
More than 80	25
More than 70	40
More than 60	50
More than 50	56
More than 40	80
More than 30	92
More than 20	100

Now we will plot this “more than type” given on the same graph.

Here the blue line represents “less than type” and the red line represents “more than type”.
Hence, we have plotted the Less than type and more than type ogive curve on the graph.
Now we will find the median of the data. We know that the middlemost term of the data is known as the median. So, in this case, where curve 1 and curve 2 intersects is the middle part of the data. So by projecting the line on the X-axis from that point we can see the value of the median. We can see that the line projected from the point of intersection of the curve on the X-axis cut it at point 60.
So, the value of the median is 60.

Note:
We know that in the less than type ogive, the cumulative frequency always increases, and in the case of more than type ogive, the cumulative frequency always decreases.
Here we have to find the cumulative frequencies to calculate the table of the less than type and more than type. Cumulative frequency is obtained by adding the preceding frequency of the class interval. We should also know that the Median is the middlemost value of the given data and the mean is the average of the data given.