EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

A sample of 36 data values, x, gave Σx-45=-148 Σx-452=3089.

One extra data value of 29 was added to the sample. Find the standard deviation of all 37 values.

Important Questions on Measures of Variation

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
The ages, x years, of 150 cars are summarised by Σx=645 and Σx2=8287.5. Find Σx-x¯2, where x¯ denotes the mean of x.
 
MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

A set of data values is152, 164, 177, 191, 207, 250 and 258.

Compare the proportional change in the standard deviation with the proportional change in the interquartile range when the value 250 in the data set is increased by 40%.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT
A shop has in its stock 80 rectangular celebrity posters. All of these posters have a width to height ratio of 1:2, and their mean perimeter is 231.8 cm. Given that the sum of the squares of the widths is 200120 cm2, find the standard deviation of the widths of the posters.
EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

At a village fair, visitors were asked to guess how many sweets are in a glass jar. The best six guesses were 180, 211, 230, 199, 214 and 166.

Show that the mean of these guesses is 200, and use SD=Σ(x-x¯)2n to calculate the standard deviation.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

At a village fair, visitors were asked to guess how many sweets are in a glass jar. The best six guesses were 180, 211, 230, 199, 214 and 166.

The jar actually contained 202 sweets. Without further calculation, write down the mean and the standard deviation of the errors made by these six visitors. Explain why no further calculations are required to do this.

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AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

The number of women in senior management positions at a number of companies was investigated. The number of women at each of the 25 service companies and at each of the 16 industrial companies are denoted by ws and w1, respectively. The findings are summarised by the totals:
Σws-52=28,Σws-5=15,Σw1-32=12 and Σw1-3=-4

Show that there are, on average, more than twice as many women in senior management positions at the service companies than at the industrial companies.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

The number of women in senior management positions at a number of companies was investigated. The number of women at each of the 25 service companies and at each of the 16 industrial companies are denoted by ws and w1, respectively. The findings are summarised by the totals:
Σws-52=28,Σws-5=15,Σw1-32=12 and Σw1-3=-4

Show that Σws2Σws2 and that Σw12ΣwI2.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

The number of women in senior management positions at a number of companies was investigated. The number of women at each of the 25 service companies and at each of the 16 industrial companies are denoted by ws and w1, respectively. The findings are summarised by the totals:
Σws-52=28,Σws-5=15,Σw1-32=12 and Σw1-3=-4

Find the standard deviation of the number of women in senior management positions at all of these service and industrial companies together.