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MHT CET · Maths · Statistics

Mean and variance of six observations are 8 and 16 respectively. If each observation is multiplied by 3 , then new variance of the resulting observations is

  1. A 16
  2. B 48
  3. C 24
  4. D 144
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(D) 144

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When each item of a data is multiplied by \(\lambda\), variance is multiplied by \(\lambda^2\).
\(\begin{aligned}
\therefore \text {New variance} & =3^2 \times 16 \\
& =9 \times 16 \\
& =144
\end{aligned}\)