diff --git a/pandas/tests/groupby/test_apply.py b/pandas/tests/groupby/test_apply.py
index da6e7c6851667..49514f0b90cc5 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/groupby/test_apply.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/groupby/test_apply.py
@@ -968,9 +968,14 @@ def test_apply_function_with_indexing_return_column():
     df = DataFrame(
         {
             "foo1": ["one", "two", "two", "three", "one", "two"],
-            "foo2": [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
+            "foo2": [1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6],
         }
     )
     result = df.groupby("foo1", as_index=False).apply(lambda x: x.mean())
-    expected = df.groupby("foo1", as_index=False).mean()
+    expected = DataFrame(
+        {
+            "foo1": ["one", "three", "two"],
+            "foo2": [3.0, 4.0, 4.0],
+        }
+    )
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)