Practical -1

Arithmetic Mean
1. The monthly income of ten families (in rupees) in a certain locality is given below.

Family A B C D E F G
Income (in rupees) 30 70 60 100 200 150 300
Calculate the arithmetic mean.

2. Calculate the mean for the data

X 5 8 12 15 20 24
F 3 4 6 5 3 2

3. The following table gives the distribution of the number of workers according to the
weekly wage in a company.
Weekly 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
wage (in Rs.
100's)
Number of 5 10 15 18 7 8 5 3
workers

4. Mean of 20 values is 45. If one of these values is to be taken 64 instead of 46, find the
Corrected mean.

5. From the following data, find the missing frequency when mean is 15.38
Size 10 12 14 16 18 20
Frequency 3 7 ---- 20 8 5

6. The following table gives the weekly wages in rupees of workers in a certain
commercial organization. The frequency of the class-interval 49-52 is missing.
Weekly Wage (in rs.) 40-43 43-46 46-49 49-52 52-55

Number Of workers 31 58 60 ---- 27

It is known that the mean of the above frequency distribution is Rs .47.2. Find the
missing frequency.
7. If the mean of five observations x, x + 4, x + 6, x + 8 and x + 12 is 16, find the value of x.
8. The mean of the heights of 6 boys is 152 cm. If the individual heights of five of them are 151
cm, 153 cm, 155 cm, 149 cm and 154 cm, find the height of the sixth boy.
9.  A cricketer has a mean score of 58 runs in nine innings. Find out how many runs are to be
scored by him in the tenth innings to raise the mean score to 61.
10. The mean of 16 items was found to be 30. On rechecking, it was found that two items were
wrongly taken as 22 and 18 instead of 32 and 28 respectively. Find the correct mean.