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Mean from a
Frequency Table

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1. Robbie played twenty football matches for his school team.
The number of goals scored in each game are shown in the table.

(a) Work out the total number of goals scored by Robbie.

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(b) Calculate the mean number of goals scored per game.

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2. The table shows the number of sweets in 20 bags.

Calculate the mean.

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3. Lily visits an arcade while on holiday in Weston-Super-Mare.
She plays 100 games and wins tickets that she can exchange for prizes.
The table below shows the results.

(a) Work out the total of tickets won.

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(b) Calculate the mean number of tickets per game.

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4. Thirty students were asked how many cats they owned.
The results are shown in the table.

Calculate the mean number of cats owned per child.

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5. A company collected data about the number of internet devices in
each of 50 households.

The table shows the results.

(a) Work out the total number of internet devices in these 50 households

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(b) Calculate the mean number of internet devices per household.

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6. Alex works for the council.
He records the number of people in cars travelling down a street over one hour.

Here are his results.

(a) Work out the total number of cars that travelled down the street.

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(b) Work out the total number of people that travelled in cars down the street.

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(c) Work out the mean number of people travelling in each car.

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7. Mr Edwards asks his class how long they spent revising for a test.

The table shows the results.

Mr Edwards says “the average amount of time spent revising was 1 hour.”

Do you agree with him?

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8. Chloe owns a restaurant.
She surveys a group of people about how many times they have visited her
restaurant.
The highest number of visits was 5.

The table shows some information about her results.

The total number of visits to her restaurant by the group was 160

Find the missing frequency.

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9. The table shows the amount of money withdrawn from a cash machine.

(a) Write down the modal amount of money withdrawn.

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(b) Find the median amount of money withdrawn.

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(c) Work out the mean amount of money withdrawn.

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10. A French teacher asks her class of 20 students how to spell 10 words.

The table shows the results.

Work out the percentage of the class that scored greater than the mean number
of correct answer.

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11. Simon rolls a fair six-sided dice 30 times.
He records the results in a table, however misses two of the frequencies.

The mean result is 3.5

Work out the two missing numbers.

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12. The star rating, from 1 to 5, of hotels in a city are summarised below.

The mean star rating of a hotel in the city is 3.575

Calculate the value of the missing frequency, x.

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