1. Name _______________________________ Date ____________________
Mrs. Labuski & Mrs. Rooney Period ____ Lesson 6-5 Frequency Tables &
Histograms
VOCABULARY DEFINITION EXAMPLE
Tells the
number of times TYPES OF FRUIT
FREQUENCY
TABLE an event, Fruit Frequency
Cumulative
category, or Frequency
group occurs apple 5 5
This column banana 4 9
CUMULATIVE shows a running
FREQUENCY total of all strawberry 2 11
frequencies.
Mr. Allen said that his students could choose one day a week to not have homework
assigned. He recorded their votes in the box below.
Make a tally table to organize Use your tally table from Exercise 1 to
the data. make a cumulative frequency table.
Cumulative
Tally Table for Homework Votes Day Frequency
Frequency
Monday  Monday 4 4
Tuesday  Tuesday 2 6
Wednesday  Wednesday 2 8
Thursday  Thursday 1 9
Friday   Friday 6 15
Which day got the most votes? How many students voted in all?
_____Friday________________ ___________15_____________

2. Students listed the number of days they spent on vacation in one year.
Make a tally table with intervals of 5.
2, 18, 5, 15, 7, 10, 1, 10, 4, 16,
7, 11, 17, 3, 8, 14, 13, 10
Number of Vacation Days
1-5 
6-10  
11-15 
16-20 
A bar graph that
shows the 1. Choose an appropriate scale and
number of data interval.
HISTOGRAM 2. Draw a bar for the number of days
itmes that occur in each interval.
within each 3. Title the graph and label the axes.
interval
Number of Days spent on Vacation in one Year
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20
Number of Vacation Days

3. Name _______________________________ Date ____________________
Mrs. Labuski & Mrs. Rooney Period ____ Lesson 6-5 Frequency Tables &
Histograms
VOCABULARY DEFINITION EXAMPLE
TYPES OF FRUIT
FREQUENCY
TABLE Cumulative
Fruit Frequency
Frequency
CUMULATIVE
FREQUENCY
Mr. Allen said that his students could choose one day a week to not have homework
assigned. He recorded their votes in the box below.
Make a tally table to organize Use your tally table from Exercise 1 to
the data. make a cumulative frequency table.
Cumulative
Tally Table for Homework Votes Day Frequency
Frequency
Monday Monday
Tuesday Tuesday
Wednesday Wednesday
Thursday Thursday
Friday Friday
Which day got the most votes? How many students voted in all?
________________________ ________________________

4. Students listed the number of days they spent on vacation in one year.
Make a tally table with intervals of 5.
2, 18, 5, 15, 7, 10, 1, 10, 4, 16,
7, 11, 17, 3, 8, 14, 13, 10
1. Choose an appropriate scale and
interval.
HISTOGRAM 2. Draw a bar for the number of days
in each interval.
3. Title the graph and label the axes.