Mean from tables

1. Rosie had 10 boxes of drawing pins.

She counted the number of drawing pins in each box.

The table gives information about her results.

Number of
Frequency
drawing pins
29 2
30 5
31 2
32 1

(a) Write down the modal number of drawing pins in a box.

.................................(1)

(b) Work out the range of the number of drawing pins in a box.

.................................(1)

(c) Work out the mean number of drawing pins in a box.

.................................(3)

2. 20 students scored goals for the school hockey team last month.
The table gives information about the number of goals they scored.

Goals scored Number of

students
1 9
2 3
3 5
4 3

(a) Write down the modal number of goals scored.

..........................(1)

(b) Work out the range of the number of goals scored.

..........................(1)

(c) Work out the mean number of goals scored.

 ..........................(3)

3. Ali found out the number of rooms in each of 40 houses in a town. He used the
information to complete the frequency table.

Number of Rooms Frequency

4 4
5 7
6 10
7 12
8 5
9 2

Ali said that the mode is 9

Ali is wrong.

(a) Explain why.

....................................................................................................................................
.

....................................................................................................................................
.(1)

(b) Calculate the mean number of rooms.

………………...(3)

4. There are 10 children in a playgroup.

The table shows information about the ages, in years, of these children.

Age in years Frequency

2 3
3 5
4 2
 Work out the mean age of the children.

.................................. years
(Total 3 marks)

5. Fred did a survey on the areas of pictures in a newspaper.

The table gives information about the areas.

Area (A cm2) Frequency

0 < A  10 38
10 < A  25 36
25 < A  40 30
40 < A  60 46

Work out an estimate for the mean area of a picture.

.................................cm2
(Total 4 marks)

6. Fred did a survey of the time, in seconds, people spent in a queue at a supermarket.
Information about the times is shown in the table.
Time (t seconds) Frequency
0 < t ≤ 40 8
40 < t ≤ 80 12
80 < t ≤ 120 14
120 < t ≤ 160 16
160 < t ≤ 200 10

(a) Write down the modal class interval.

………………………seconds
 (1)

A person is selected at random from the people in Fred’s survey.

(b) Work out an estimate for the probability that the person selected spent more than
120 seconds in the queue.

………………………(2)

7. Bill recorded the times, in minutes, taken to complete his last 40 homeworks.

This table shows information about the times.

Time (t minutes) Frequency
20 ≤ t < 25 8
25 ≤ t < 30 3
30 ≤ t < 35 7
35 ≤ t < 40 7
40 ≤ t < 45 15

(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean time it took Bill to complete each homework.

.....................................minutes(4)

8. The table gives some information about the time taken by a group of 100 students to
complete an IQ test.

Time (t Frequency
seconds)
60 < t < 70 12
70 < t < 80 22
80 < t < 90 23
90 < t < 100 24
100 < t < 110 19

(a) Write down the modal class interval.

 .....................................................(1)

(b) Calculate an estimate for the mean time taken by the students.

................... seconds
(4)

9. Marcus collected some pebbles.

He weighed each pebble.

The grouped frequency table gives some information about weights.

Weight (w
Frequency
grams)
50  w < 60 5
60  w < 70 9
70  w < 80 22
80  w < 90 27
90  w < 100 17

Work out an estimate for the mean weight of the pebbles.

………………………… grams(Total 4 marks)

10. Shirin recorded the number of students late for school each day for 21 days.
The stem and leaf diagram shows this information.
 N u m b er o f stu d en ts late

1 4 5 7 8 8 9 K ey :
2 2 2 5 6 6 7 7 9 9 9 1 |4 m ean s
3 0 1 3 4 6 1 4 stu d en ts late

(a) Find the median number of students late for school.

…………………………(1)

(b) Work out the range of the number of students late for school.

…………………………(1)

11. A teacher asked 50 children how much pocket money they got each week.
The table shows some information about their replies.

Pocket money
Frequency
(£x)
0<x2 1
2<x4 10
4<x6 23
6<x8 14
8 < x  10 2

Work out the estimate for the mean amount of pocket money the children got.

£ .............................
(Total 4 marks)
12. The table gives information about the time taken by 20 students to travel to school.
Time (t minutes) Frequency
0<t≤5 2
5 < t ≤ 10 8
10 < t ≤ 15 4
15 < t ≤ 20
20 < t ≤ 25 3

Work out an estimate for the mean time.

.....................................minutes
(Total 4 marks)