The largest value in a set of data is 100, and the lowest value is 20. If the resulting frequency distribution is to have five classes of equal width, the class width will be 16.

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The class width is calculated by dividing the range of the data by the number of classes. The range is the difference between the largest and smallest values, which is 100 - 20 = 80. The number of classes is 5. Therefore, the class width is 80 / 5 = 16.

The Largest Value in a Set of Data Is 100