At a meeting of information systems officers for regional offices of a national company, a survey was taken to determine the number of employees the officers supervise in the operation of their departments, where X is the number of employees overseen by each information systems officer.

Question

At a meeting of information systems officers for regional offices of a national company, a survey was taken to determine the number of employees the officers supervise in the operation of their departments, where X is the number of employees overseen by each information systems officer.

X f
1 8
2 4
3 11
4 8
5 4

How many regional offices are represented in the survey results?

Answer 1

There are 5 regional offices represented in the survey results. This can be determined by adding up the frequencies of each number of employees overseen:

8 + 4 + 11 + 8 + 4 = 35

Therefore, there are 35 employees overseen in total, which is representative of employees overseen by information systems officers in 5 regional offices.