1. A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their environment awareness programme, in which they collected the following data regarding the number of plants in 20 houses in a locality. Find the mean number of plants per house.
Which method did you use for finding the mean, and why?
Number of plants
|
Number of houses |
Class mark |
|
0-2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2-4 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
4-6 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
6-8 | 5 | 7 | 35 |
8-10 | 6 | 9 | 54 |
10-12 | 2 | 11 | 22 |
12-14 | 3 | 13 | 39 |
=20 |
=162 |
Mean,
We used the direct method in this as the values of are small.