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JEE Mains · Maths · STD 11 - 13. statistics

The mean and standard deviation of \(15\) observations are found to be \(8\) and \(3\) respectively. On rechecking it was found that, in the observations, \(20\) was misread as \(5\) . Then, the correct variance is equal to......

  1. A \(7\)
  2. B \(20\)
  3. C \(19\)
  4. D \(17\)
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(D) \(17\)

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We have \(\text { Variance }=\frac{\sum\limits_{ r =1}^{15} x _{ r }^{2}}{15}-\left(\frac{\sum\limits_{ r =1}^{15} x _{ r }}{15}\right)^{2}\) Now, as per information given in equation \(\frac{\sum x _{ r }^{2}}{15}-8^{2}=3^{2} \Rightarrow \sum x _{ T }^{2}=\log 5\) Now, the new…
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