Question

The value of π up to50 decimal places is given below: 

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 

(i) Make a frequency distribution of the digits from 0 to 9 after the decimal point. 

(ii)What are the most and the least frequently occurring digits?  

Answer 1

(i) By observation of the digits after decimal point, the required table can be constructed as follows.

(ii) It can be observed from the above table that the least frequency is 2 of digit 0, and the maximum frequency is 8 of digit 3 and 9. Therefore, the most frequently occurring digits are 3 and 9 and the least frequently occurring digit is 0.