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For a group of 100 observations, the arithmetic mean and standard deviation are 8 and \(\sqrt{10.5}\) respectively. The mean and standard deviation of 50 items selected from these 100 observations are 10 and 2 respectively. Then the standard deviation of the remaining 50 observation is

  1. A 2
  2. B 3
  3. C 3.5
  4. D 4
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(B) 3

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Let \(\sigma_1\) and \(\bar{x}_1\) are the standard deviation and mean of 50 observation and \(\sigma_2\) and \(\bar{x}_2\) are standard deviation one mean of another 50 observation respectively…