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For the following set of data, find the number of data within 2 population standarddeviations of the mean.87, 63, 39, 67, 66, 63, 62, 67, 66Copy Values for CalculatorOpen Statistics Calculator

For the following set of data, find the number of data within 2 population standarddeviations-example-1
User Vitalii Shevchuk
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We have to calculate the number of data within 2 population standard deviation of the mean.

For we have to find the mean of the given data.

Mean is given by


\operatorname{mean}=(87+63+39+67+66+63+62+67+66)/(9)=(580)/(9)=64.44

The standard deviation is given by the formula,


\sigma=\sqrt[]{\frac{\Sigma(x_i-\operatorname{mean})^2}{9}}

Then the standard deviation is given by


\sigma^2=\frac{(87-64.4)^2+\cdots+(66-64.4)^2^{}}{9}=(1184.22)/(9)=131.58

Hence the standard deviation is


\sigma=\sqrt[]{131.58}=11.47

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