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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

5.1 is correct for the mean

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

any ideas on how to find the variance?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

good, that will get you the population variance

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

yes I think so

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

I'm getting 0.217857143, so yes

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

take the square root of the variance to get the standard deviation

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

what do you mean?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

I would do the full decimal expansion then round when you're done

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

sqrt( 0.217857143 ) = 0.46675169308744 approximately

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

if you were rounding to 1 decimal place, then the std dev would be roughly 0.5

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

sure

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

Are you familiar with the normal distribution and the empirical rule?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

have you heard of the bell shaped curve?

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

hmm seems odd how they ask you a question on something the lesson hasn't covered (yet)

jimthompson5910 (jim_thompson5910):

but basically, the candies are distributed on this bell shaped curve |dw:1397105225676:dw|

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