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littleanan

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Which of the following two data sets has the larger standard deviation: Data Set A= 1, 1, 5, 5 or Data Set B= 1, 3, 3, 5?

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Suppose you can create your own data set by choosing from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 . You can repeat a number as many times as you wish, as long as your final data set contains four numbers in it. Here are two examples of data sets you could create: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 1, 1, 5, 5. Create a data set that has mean 3 and standard deviation 0.


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aliotak

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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

DATA SET A

Answer to Question 2

3, 3, 3, 3.


littleanan

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Reply #2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Both answers were spot on, thank you once again


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Reply #3 on: Jul 24, 2018
Great! Please up vote :D


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