Organising Data using Tally marks (Frequency Distribution Table)

Last updated at April 16, 2024 by

Let's learn how to write Tally marks for some data.

 

Here is the rule we follow

  • We write 1 as one line, 2 as 2 lines, 3 as 3 lines, 4 as 4 lines
  • For 5, we make a bunch. So that it is easier to remember
  • For 6, it is a bunch and 1 line

 

The Tally marks for numbers 1 to 6 is given below

Tally marks image.jpg

 

Let's solve an Example

Suppose

Marks of 20 students in Maths Test

  11, 4, 27, 18, 18, 3, 24, 22, 11, 22,

  18, 11, 18, 7, 29, 18, 11, 6, 29, 11

 

We want to find number of students who scored 29? or 11?

We write the numbers in a table

Organising Data using Tally marks (Frequency Distribution Table) - Part 2

So,

  Number of students who scored 29 = 2

  Number of students who scored 11 = 5

 

Let’s take another example

 

Let, following be the data of ages of 30 people in your locality

5, 65, 62, 48, 5, 23, 17, 40, 30, 30, 30, 51, 5, 17, 17, 39, 23, 48, 40, 65, 65, 62, 5, 5, 17, 62, 51, 23, 48, 40

Now organising the data using Tally marks

Organising Data using Tally marks (Frequency Distribution Table) - Part 3

 

 

 

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Transcript

We follow these steps Writing all marks in 1 column Writing 1 number as Writing 5 as

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