A biologist exposed a certain type of bacteria to gamma radiation to see how long they would live. He gathered data on the survival time of a number of bacterial cells and organized the data into the histogram below. Use the histogram to construct a frequency table. (The relative frequencies should be in decimal form.) 60+ 50 30 10 440 282 Survival Time (in Seconds) 45 124 203 361 519 Survival Time of Bacteria upon Exposure to Gamma Radiation Frequency Survival Time (in Seconds) Relative Frequency 45-124 124-203 203-282 282-361 361-440 440-519 40 20 Frequency

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A biologist exposed a certain type of bacteria to gamma radiation to see how long they would live.
He gathered data on the survival time of a number of bacterial cells and organized the data into the
histogram below. Use the histogram to construct a frequency table. (The relative frequencies should
be in decimal form.)
60+
50
40
30
10
440
282
Survival Time (in Seconds)
45
124
203
361
519
Survival Time of Bacteria upon Exposure to Gamma Radiation
Frequency
Survival Time (in Seconds)
Relative Frequency
45-124
124-203
203-282
282-361
361-440
440-519
Frequency
20
Transcribed Image Text:A biologist exposed a certain type of bacteria to gamma radiation to see how long they would live. He gathered data on the survival time of a number of bacterial cells and organized the data into the histogram below. Use the histogram to construct a frequency table. (The relative frequencies should be in decimal form.) 60+ 50 40 30 10 440 282 Survival Time (in Seconds) 45 124 203 361 519 Survival Time of Bacteria upon Exposure to Gamma Radiation Frequency Survival Time (in Seconds) Relative Frequency 45-124 124-203 203-282 282-361 361-440 440-519 Frequency 20
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From histogram we can count and write down the frequency in the respective column/row. 

To find Relative frequency we divide the frequency by the total of frequency. And write it in the respective row. 

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