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?

5

11

35

40

GPT 3.5 · Answer

The total number of information systems officers surveyed can be obtained by adding up all the frequencies:

8 + 4 + 11 + 8 + 4 = 35

Therefore, 35 regional offices are represented in the survey results.

The correct answer is 35.