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A survey 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.

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8.1 plants . We have used direct method because numerical values of `x_1 and f_i` are small.
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