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    The document contains 3 exercises involving measures of variation such as range, variance, and standard deviation. For the first exercise, the document calculates the range, variance, and standard deviation of patient numbers entering an emergency room over a 30-hour period. The range is found to be 10, the variance is 8.67, and the standard deviation is 2.94. The second exercise calculates the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the weights of 100 babies born at a hospital in 2004. The mean weight is found to be 7.8 pounds, the variance is 3.6, and the standard deviation is 1.9 pounds. The third exercise compares the variability of scores between a Statistics class and

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    The document contains 3 exercises involving measures of variation such as range, variance, and standard deviation. For the first exercise, the document calculates the range, variance, and standard deviation of patient numbers entering an emergency room over a 30-hour period. The range is found to be 10, the variance is 8.67, and the standard deviation is 2.94. The second exercise calculates the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the weights of 100 babies born at a hospital in 2004. The mean weight is found to be 7.8 pounds, the variance is 3.6, and the standard deviation is 1.9 pounds. The third exercise compares the variability of scores between a Statistics class and

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    The document contains 3 exercises involving measures of variation such as range, variance, and standard deviation. For the first exercise, the document calculates the range, variance, and standard deviation of patient numbers entering an emergency room over a 30-hour period. The range is found to be 10, the variance is 8.67, and the standard deviation is 2.94. The second exercise calculates the mean, variance, and standard deviation of the weights of 100 babies born at a hospital in 2004. The mean weight is found to be 7.8 pounds, the variance is 3.6, and the standard deviation is 1.9 pounds. The third exercise compares the variability of scores between a Statistics class and

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    MELEZA JOY A.

    SATUR MST – MATHEMATICS

    Exercises B: Measures of Variation


    1. The following data give the number of patients who entered the emergency room of a
    hospital every hour for a 30-hour period.

    Find the range, variance, and standard deviation.

    Solution:
    Solve for the range:
    Score ( x−μ) ( x−μ )2 Range=highest score−lowest score
    2 -4 16
    5 -1 1
    7 1 1
    3 -3 9
    8 2 4
    3 -3 9
    9 3 9
    3 -3 9
    10 4 16
    4 -2 4
    7 1 1
    4 -2 4
    6 0 0
    11 5 25
    9 3 9
    9 3 9 Range=11−1=10
    11 5 25
    7 1 1
    5 -1 1
    3 -3 9
    8 2 4
    9 3 9
    2 -4 16
    1 -5 25
    3 -3 9
    8 2 4
    3 -3 9
    8 2 4
    9 3 9
    3 -3 9
    μ=6 ∑ ( x−μ )2=260

    Solve for variance:


    2 ∑ ( x−μ )2 260
    σ = = =8.67
    N 30

    Solve for standard deviation:

    ∑ ( x−μ )2 =
    σ=
    √ N √ 260
    30
    =2.94

    2. The following table gives the grouped data on the weights of all 100 babies born at a
    hospital in the year 2004.

    Weight Number of xm 2
    ( xm) f . xm f . x 2m
    (in pounds) Babies
    3–5 5 4 16 20 80
    5–7 30 6 36 180 1080
    7–9 40 8 64 320 2560
    9 – 11 20 10 100 200 2000
    11 – 13 5 12 144 60 720
    n=100 f x
    ∑ m=780 ∑ f . x 2m =6440
    Solve for the mean.

    Mean=
    ∑ f x m = 780 =7.8
    ∑ f 100

    Solve for the variance.


    2
    2
    n ∑ f . x 2m−( ∑ f . x m ) (100 )( 6440 ) −(780)2 644000−608400 35600
    s= = = = =3.6 0
    n(n−1) (100)(100−1) 9900 9900

    Solve for the standard deviation.

    s= √ s2 =√3.60=1.9 0

    3. The average score of the students in one Statistics class is 110, with a standard
    deviation of 5; the average score of students in a Calculus class is 106, with a
    standard deviation of 4. Which class is more variable in terms of scores?

    Solution:

    5
    Statistics Class CV = ∗100=4.55 %
    110
    4
    Calculus Class CV = ∗100=3.77 %
    106

    Since the coefficient of variation for the statistic class is larger, the score here are more variable than the
    scores in the history class.

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