Measures of Dispersion
Practice
Sample standard deviation - Answers
1. The standard deviation of the amounts is \(s_{x} \approx 2.55\) gigabytes.
2. The standard deviation is
\(s_{x}=\sqrt{\dfrac{(21-47)^{2}+(28-47)^{2}+\cdots+(70-47)^{2}}{7}}\\)
3. Jerry's error is that his denominator is incorrect.
4. The standard deviation of the times is \(s_{x} \approx 3.24\) minutes.