STATISTICS - STANDARD DEVIATION AND VARIANCE

Which of the following is a measure of variability?

• mean
• median
• mode
• standard deviation

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CCSS.6.SP.A.3

If the standard deviation of a data set is 4, what is the variance?

• 2
• 16
• 4

Once you've calculated the mean, and listed the values in a table, what is the next step to calculating the variance?

• Square each value in the data set

• Subtract each value in the data set from the mean

• Subtract the mean from each value in the data set

• Add the mean to each value in the data set

How do you calculate the standard deviation?

• Divide the variance by 2.

• Its a long process and I can't explain it right now.

• Find the mean and multiply it by the variance.

• Take the square root of the variance.

All of the below sets have the same mean.
Set 1-Standard Deviation=3.1
Set 2-Standard Deviation=4.9
Set 3-Standard Deviation=1.7
Set 4-Standard Deviation=3.2
Which set of data probably has the points closest to the mean?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

What does variance represent?

• How many different variations are in the data set.

• How the population varies compared to the sample.

• How spread out each data value is from the mean.

• The range, but with a bunch of other stuff going on.

What is the standard deviation for the data given:

5, 10, 7, 12, 0, 20, 15, 22, 8, 2

• 6.89

• 10.1

• 7.26

• 9