The arithmetic mean of the following data is 25, find the value of k.
Given:
Mean $=25$
First of all prepare the frequency table in such a way that its first column consist of the values of the variate $\left(x_{i}\right)$ and the second column the corresponding frequencies $\left(f_{i}\right)$.
Thereafter multiply the frequency of each row with corresponding values of variable to obtain third column containing $\left(f_{i} x_{i}\right)$.
Then, sum of all entries in the column second and denoted by $\sum f_{i}$ and in the third column to obtain $\sum f_{i} x_{i}$.
We know that mean, $\bar{X}=\frac{\sum f_{i} x_{i}}{\sum f_{i}}$
$25=\frac{390+15 k}{14+k}$
By using cross multiplication method,
$350+25 k=390+15 k$
$25 k-15 k=390-350$
$10 k=40$
$k=4$
Hence, k = 4