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JEE Mains · Maths · STD 11 - 13. statistics

Consider the statistics of two sets of observations as follows :
  Size Mean Variance
Observation \(I\) \(10\) \(2\) \(2\)
Observation \(II\) \(n\) \(3\) \(1\)
If the variance of the combined set of these two observations is \(\frac{17}{9},\) then the value of \(n\) is equal to ..... .

  1. A \(8\)
  2. B \(10\)
  3. C \(5\)
  4. D \(15\)
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(C) \(5\)

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\(\sigma^{2}=\frac{ n _{1} \sigma_{1}^{2}+ n _{2} \sigma_{2}^{2}}{ n _{1}+ n _{2}}+\frac{ n _{1} n _{2}}{\left( n _{1}+ n _{2}\right)}\left(\overline{ x }_{1}-\overline{ x }_{2}\right)^{2}\) \(n _{1}=10, n _{2}= n , \sigma_{1}^{2}=2, \sigma_{2}^{2}=1\)…