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.
Ch2: Frequency Distributions and Graphs Santorico -Page 38 Cumulative frequency distribution â a distribution that shows the number of observations less than or equal to a specific value. These are easy to determine from a frequency distribution. Simply add the number of observations for each class with the previous classes.