Practice questions

1. For the following frequency data, mean is 74 and the total frequency is 100.
Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120 120-140
Frequency 5 13 a 15 b 20 7
Find a and b.

3. A committee of 11 members in total is formed including one male leader and one female
leader. It was observed that female leader is 26 years old and the male leader is 3 years
older than female leader. If the two leaders are excluded, the average age of remaining
9 players is one year less than the whole team. What is the average age of the team.

4. For the following frequency data, median is 38.5 and the total frequency is 400.
Class 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80
Frequency 42 38 a 54 b 36 32
Find a and b.
5. For the following frequency data, mode is 1376 and the total frequency is 360.
Class 0-400 400-800 800-1200 1200- 1600-2000 2000-2400 2400-2800
1600
Frequency 14 22 a 124 b 32 15
Find a and b.
6. The arithmetic mean of 100 observations is 40. It is found that an observation 53 was misread
as 83 every time and the frequency of 53 in the data is 8. Find the correct mean.