Question

The measures of heights (in inches) of a class of students are shown. 60, 60,54, 62, 62, 57,58, 65, 54,67, 63,57, 62, 54, 72, 66, 54, 69, 55, 61 Find the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation of the heights.b. A new student who is 7 feet tall joins your class. How would you expect this student’s height to affect the measures in part (a)?

Answer 1

Answer:Compute the variance: 49+25+16+9+1+16+36+648=27.

The variance is a measure of the dispersion and its value is lower for tightly grouped data than for widely spread data. In the example above, the variance is 27. What does it mean to say that tightly grouped data will have a low variance? You can probably already imagine that the size of the variance also depends on the size of the data itself. Below we see ways that mathematicians have tried to standardize the variance.

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