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Find out whether the words in magazines are shorter than the words in newspapers by comparing the two.
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Maths Coursework My Aim My aim is to find out whether the words in magazines are shorter than the words in newspapers by comparing the two. I have chosen two articles on rugby, one from a magazine and the other from a newspaper. Hypothesis My hypothesis is that the length of words in magazines in general will be shorter than those in newspapers. To investigate this I will count the lengths of words in each article and put my results in a frequency table. I will pick a paragraph from each containing 100 words. FHM-'Here's Jonny' Rugby-Johnny Wilkinson This table shows my results gathered from the FHM magazine about the Rugby. I have used a tally to collect the data . Number of letters in each word Tally Frequency 1 lll 3 2 13 3 26 4 14 5 13 6 5 7 10 8 5 9 7 10 ll 2 11 0 12 l 1 13 l 1 Total 100 To show my results I have produced to charts which will help to compare the data from both of the Rugby articles. From this table you can see that in the magazine...
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