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MadMike1986
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Hi,
my girlfriend is taking a business statistics class and she had a test today. she got stumped on a question and wrote it down so she could ask me about it when she got back since I'm pretty good at math. I tried solving it but from what i can tell it seems like you would need to know the mean in order to find the variance. the question is below:
Find the Variance:
n = 5
[tex]\Sigma x^{2}[/tex] = 1320
[tex]\Sigma[/tex]x = 80
I expanded out the variance formula. since we run from i=1 to n (where n=5)
I got the formula V = 1320 - 160[tex]u^{2}[/tex] + 5[tex]u^{2}[/tex][tex]/5[/tex]
where u = the mean.
My girlfriend says that the mean was not specified in the problem. I would have given my answer for the variance as a function of the mean as you can see above, but since this is a business statistics class i have the tendency to believe the teacher is expecting a numerical answer. Does anyone have any insight into how this problem can be solved, or is there not enough information given?
Thank you.
my girlfriend is taking a business statistics class and she had a test today. she got stumped on a question and wrote it down so she could ask me about it when she got back since I'm pretty good at math. I tried solving it but from what i can tell it seems like you would need to know the mean in order to find the variance. the question is below:
Find the Variance:
n = 5
[tex]\Sigma x^{2}[/tex] = 1320
[tex]\Sigma[/tex]x = 80
I expanded out the variance formula. since we run from i=1 to n (where n=5)
I got the formula V = 1320 - 160[tex]u^{2}[/tex] + 5[tex]u^{2}[/tex][tex]/5[/tex]
where u = the mean.
My girlfriend says that the mean was not specified in the problem. I would have given my answer for the variance as a function of the mean as you can see above, but since this is a business statistics class i have the tendency to believe the teacher is expecting a numerical answer. Does anyone have any insight into how this problem can be solved, or is there not enough information given?
Thank you.