A class teacher has the following absentee record of 40 students of a class for the whole term. Find the mean number of days a student was absent


Number of days



0 - 6



6 - 10



10 - 14



14 - 20



20 - 28



28 - 38



38 - 40



Number of students



11



10



7



4



4



3



1


The above given data can be represented in the form of table as below:


Class Interval



fi



xi



fixi



0-6



11



3



33



6-14



10



8



80



14-20



7



12



84



20-28



4



17



68



28-38



4



24



96



38-40



3



33



99




1



39



39




∑fi = 40




∑fixi = 499



Mean can be calculated as follows:




= 12.4 (approx.)


9