Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321911210
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-121-6

Chapter 2 - Descriptive Statistics - Section 2.4 Measures of Variation - Exercises - Page 93: 2

Answer

To find the deviation you must use this formula: x-mean= deviation. The sum of the deviations will always be one

Work Step by Step

This is the formula to find the deviation. If you calculate the deviations of a data set and add them all together it will always equal 1
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