1 Shiny and dry surface-when it starts going bad, it gets a slimy greyish coating. 2  Fresh odour-it can also smell like melon or cucumber. 3  If it's bad, it will smell rotten, like a sour dishcloth. 4  An even, light surface-the fish is bad if it has yellow spots and transparent parts on the surface.he fish you buy in the shops isn't always as fresh as it should be. But it can be difficult to ascertain when the fish actually starts going bad. Today's methods of ensuring freshness aren't good enough because they only measure one indicator of whether the fish is fresh, such as texture, smell or colour.
Definition of FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION. : an arrangement of statistical data that exhibits the frequency of the occurrence of the values of a variable. See frequency distribution defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT.
Use the following steps to present this data in a frequency distribution table. 1  Divide the results (x) into intervals, and then count the number of results in each interval. 2  In this case, the intervals would be the number of households with no car (0), one car (1), two cars (2) and so forth.n the latter instance, the distribution is called a relative frequency distribution. Frequency distribution tables can be used for both categorical and numeric variables. Continuous variables should only be used with class intervals, which will be explained shortly.