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Find the variance for the data

xi 6 10 14 18 24 28 30
fi 2 4 7 12 8 4 3

 

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Important Questions on Statistics

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The mean and the variance of five observations are 4 and 5.20, respectively. If three of the observations are 3,4 and 4; then the absolute value of the difference of the other two observations, is :
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All the students of a class performed poorly in Mathematics. The teacher decided to give grace marks of 10 to each of the students. Which of the following statistical measures will not change even after the grace marks were given ?
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An urn contains 5 red, 2 white and 3 black balls. Three balls are drawn, one-by-one, at random without replacement. Find the probability distribution of the number of white balls. Also, find the mean and the variance of the number of white balls drawn.
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The variance of the first 50 even natural numbers is :
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The variance of 20 observations is 5. If each observation is multiplied by 3, then what is the new variance of the resulting observations?
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If the data x1,x2,x10 is such that the mean of first four of these is 11, the mean of the remaining six is 16 and the sum of squares of all of these is 2000, then the standard deviation of this data is:
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The mean of 5 observations is 5 and their variance is 12.4. If three of the observations are 1,2 & 6; then the value of the remaining two is :
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A student scores the following marks in five tests: 45,54,41,57,43. His score is not known for the sixth test. If the mean score is 48 in the six tests, then the standard deviation of the marks in six tests is
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If the standard deviation of the numbers -1, 0, 1, k is 5 where k>0, then k is equal to
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The standard deviation of the data 6,5,9,13,12,8,10 is
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If the mean and standard deviation of 5 observations x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 are 10 and 3, respectively, then the variance of 6 observations x1, x2, , x5 and -50 is equal to
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The sum of 100 observations and the sum of their squares are  400 & 2475, respectively. Later on, three observations 3, 4 & 5 were found to be incorrect. If the incorrect observations are omitted, then the variance of the remaining observations is
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A data consists of n observations: x1, x2,  , xn. If i=1nxi+12=9n and i=1nxi-12=5n, then the standard deviation of this data is
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Let x¯M and σ2 be respectively the mean, mode and variance of n observations x1, x2,...., xn and di=-xi-a, i=1, 2,...., n, where a is any number.

Statement I: Variance of d1, d2,..., dn is σ 2 .

Statement II: Mean and mode of d1, d2,...., dn are -x¯-a and -M-a, respectively.

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If the variance of the first n natural numbers is 10 and the variance of the first m even natural numbers is 16, then the value of  m+n is equal to
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If the standard deviation of the numbers 2, 3, a and 11 is 3.5, then which of the following is true ?
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The mean and variance for seven observations are 8 and 16 respectively. If 5 of the observations are 2,4,10,12,14, then the product of the remaining two observations is
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The mean of five observations is 5 and their variance is 9.20. If three of the given five observations are 1, 3 and 8, then a ratio of other two observations is
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If i=19xi5=9 and i=19xi52=45, then the standard deviation of the 9 items x1, x2,.,x9 is