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Find the Mean From a Frequency Table

In this worksheet, students will find the mean from a frequency table.

'Find the Mean From a Frequency Table' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 8 Maths worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Statistics

Curriculum subtopic:   Understand Variables, Representation, Measures and Spread

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Worksheet Overview

What is frequency?

 

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In physics, you might have heard of the frequency of sound.

In maths, frequency is much simpler - it's just the number of times something occurs!

 

For example, below we have the frequency table made from responses to a survey on the number of pets owned:

 

Number of pets 0 1 2 3 4
Frequency 7 6 5 2 1

 

We can see that 0 pets has the frequency of 7, so 7 people responded with '0 pets owned'.

 

We can find the mean from a frequency table just as we do if we have the data points in a list:

mean = sum of all data points ÷  number of data points

 

The total number of people here, i.e. the number of data points, is all the frequencies added together:

7 + 6 + 5 + 2 + 1 = 21

 

From the table, we have:

7 people have 0 pets which is a total of 7 x 0 = 0 pets

6 people have 1 pet which is a total of 6 x 1 = 6 pets

5 people have 2 pets which is a total of 5 x 2 = 10 pets

2 people have 3 pets which is a total of 2 x 3 = 6 pets

1 person has 4 pets which is a total of 1 x 4 = 4 pets
 

So altogether, we get the total number of pets, i.e sum of all data points, is:

0 + 6 + 10 + 6 + 4 = 26 pets

 

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Mean number of pets = the total number of pets ÷ the total number of people

The mean number of pets is  26 ÷  21 = 1.2 pets per person.

 

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