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JEE Mains · Maths · STD 11 - 13. statistics

For a statistical data \(\mathrm{x}_1, \mathrm{x}_2, \ldots, \mathrm{x}_{10}\) of 10 values, a student obtained the mean as 5.5 and \(\sum_{i=1}^{10} x_i^2=371\). He later found that he had noted two values in the data incorrectly as 4 and 5 , instead of the correct values 6 and 8 , respectively. The variance of the corrected data is

  1. A \(9\)
  2. B \(5\)
  3. C \(7\)
  4. D \(4\)
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(C) \(7\)

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\begin{aligned} & \text { Mean } \overline{\mathrm{x}}=5.5 \\ & =\sum_{\mathrm{i}=1}^{10} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}=5.5 \times 10=55 \\ & =\sum_{\mathrm{i}=1}^{10} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}^2=371 \\ & \left(\sum \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}}\right)_{\text {new }}=55-(4+5)+(6+8)=60 \\ & \\…

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