A frequency distribution is a tabular summary of data showing the a. number of items in several classes. b. relative percentage of items in several classes. c. percentage of items in several classes. d. fraction of items in several classes.

The answer is a: Number of items in several classes.

Step-by-step explanation:

Frequency distributions are tables that represent the number of times a specific data, number object etc appears in a sample. So for example if we have this data

2,2,4,4,6,6,6,8,8,10

The frequency distributions is

Number frequency

2 2

4 2

6 3

8 2

10 1

The other options are identical (c and are the same as percentages can be expressed as fractions. Relative percentages or fractions are tables that express the weight that each category has in the entire data. An example for our data would be: (10 are the total number of obs)

Number Fraction/%

2 2/10 or 20%

4 2/10 or 20%

6 3/10 or 30%

8 2/10 or 20%

10 1/10 or 10%