Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 12 - Statistics - 12.3 Measures of Dispersion - Exercise Set 12.3 - Page 801: 35

Answer

$\approx1.55$

Work Step by Step

The mean of $n$ numbers is the sum of the numbers divided by $n$. Hence the mean: $\frac{18+19+19+18+17+18+20+21+20+22}{5}=19.2$ The standard deviation of $x_1,x_2,...,x_n$ is (where $\overline{x}$ is the mean of the data values): $\sqrt{\frac{(x_1-\overline{x})^2+(x_2-\overline{x})^2+...+(x_n-\overline{x})^2}{n-1}}$. Hence here the the standard deviation is: $\sqrt{\frac{(17-19.2)^2+3(18-19.2)^2+2(19-19.2)^2+2(20-19.2)^2+(21-19.2)^2+(22-19.2)^2}{10-1}}\approx1.55$
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