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Arithmetic Mean Worksheet

This document provides examples of calculating arithmetic mean from data sets using direct, assumed mean, and step-deviation methods. It includes 20 practice problems of varying complexity finding arithmetic means from tables of values, frequencies, salaries, wages, marks, and other data where sometimes values are missing or incorrectly recorded. The problems cover a range of techniques for calculating the average or mean of discrete and continuous data sets.

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Arithmetic Mean Worksheet

This document provides examples of calculating arithmetic mean from data sets using direct, assumed mean, and step-deviation methods. It includes 20 practice problems of varying complexity finding arithmetic means from tables of values, frequencies, salaries, wages, marks, and other data where sometimes values are missing or incorrectly recorded. The problems cover a range of techniques for calculating the average or mean of discrete and continuous data sets.

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Arithmetic Mean Worksheet

1. From the following data of the marks obtained by 60 students of a class,


calculate the average marks by the direct method, assume mean method,
and step – deviation method.
Mark
No of students
s
20 8
30 12
40 20
50 10
60 6
70 4

2. From the following data, calculate arithmetic mean by direct method,


short-cut method and step-deviation method.
XF
2 10
3 16
4 11
58
66
74
83
92

3. Calculate average of the following discrete series. Use Assumed mean


method by taking 25 as assumed mean.
Siz
Frequency
e
30 2
29 4
28 5
27 3
26 2
25 7
Siz
Frequency
e
24 1
23 4
22 5
21 7

4. Marks secured by 42 students in economics are as follows, find the


average marks.
Mark
Number of Students
s
15 8
20 4
22 7
23 3
27 8
35 7
18 5

Missing Data Questions:


5. In a dataset, there are 10 values, but two of them are missing. The mean
of the dataset is 25. What are the missing values?

6. The mean of five numbers is 18. If one number is missing and the other
four are 12, 15, 20, and 25, find the missing number.

Class Interval Frequency


20-30 6
30-40 8
40-50 ?
50-60 55

7. The mean of the data is 42.5. However, the frequency for the class
interval "40-50" is missing, denoted as "? (x)". Your task is to determine
the missing frequency, denoted as "x," to make the mean equal to 42.5.

8. Find out Arithmetic Mean


Marks Number of Students
Less than 10 5
Less than 20 17
Less than 30 31
Less than 40 41
Less than 50 49

9. Find the arithmetic mean of the following table:


Marks (X) Number of students
More than 0 30
More than 2 28
More than 4 24
More than 6 18
More than 8 10

10. Calculate mean marks by step-deviation method:


Number of
Income
Families
More than 75 150
More than 85 140
More than 95 115
More than 105 95
More than 115 70
More than 125 60
More than 135 40
More than 145 25

11. Mean marks obtained by 100 students are estimated to be 40. Later on,
it is found that one value was read as 83 instead of 53. Find out the
“corrected mean”. (Answer – 39.70)

12. The mean of 100 observations is found to be 40. If at the time of


computation two items are wrongly taken as 30 and 27 instead of 2 and 72,
find the correct mean. (Answer – 40.18)
13. The mean monthly salary paid to 77 employees in a company was Rs78.
The mean salary of 32 of them was Rs 45 and of the other 25 was Rs 82.
What was the mean salary of the remaining?

14. A polling agency interviewed 200 persons. The age distribution of


those persons was recorded as under:
Age (in
80-89 70-79 60-69 50-59 40-49 30-39 20-29 10-19
years)
Frequency 2 2 6 20 56 40 42 32
Answer=35.8

15. The following table shows the wages of the workers. Calculate the
average wage of the workers.
Wages (In
Number of Workers
INR)
10-19 8
20-29 9
30-39 12
40-49 11
50-59 6
Answer = 34.07.

16. The mean of 15 numbers is 27. If each number is multiplied by 5, what


will be the mean of the new numbers? (Ans-135)

17. The mean of the marks scored by 50 students was found to be 39. Later
on it was discovered that a score of 75 was misread as 25. Find the correct
mean. (Ans-40)

18. The mean of six numbers is 23. If one of the numbers is excluded, the
mean of the remaining numbers is 20. Find the excluded number. (Ans-38)
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