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An ogive can be used to read the number of observations less than a given value. This makes it useful for finding:

Class 10Cumulative Frequency and OgiveStatistics and Probability
  • Athe mean directly
  • Bquartiles and median graphically
  • Cthe mode only
  • Dthe class size

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From an ogive we can read median, quartiles and percentiles by locating etc. on the -axis.
Answer: B) quartiles and median graphically

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