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You don't GET class intervals. The person analysing the data chooses what class interval gives the best summary of the data. Ideally you are looking for class intervals that have

  • a reasonable number of observations in each class (5 or more),
  • a reasonable number of classes,
  • (sometimes) observations within the same class are as similar to one another as possible while observations between classes are as different as possible (maximum discrimination),
  • a nice round numbers as their midpoints.

The first three are important for some kinds of statistical analyses. The last is to make calculations simpler and interpretation of the results easier.

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