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Calculate the sample mean and sample variance for the following distribution of heights in centimeters for an 8 year old boy

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Answer: To calculate the sample mean of a distribution, you add up all the values and divide by the number of values in the sample. The sample mean is also known as the average.

The formula for the sample mean is:

X-bar = (X1 + X2 + ... + Xn) / n

To calculate the sample variance of a distribution, you first need to calculate the sample mean. Then, for each value, you subtract the sample mean and square the result. You add up all these squared differences, and divide the sum by the number of values in the sample.

The formula for the sample variance is:

s^2 = ( (X1 - X-bar)^2 + (X2 - X-bar)^2 + ... + (Xn - X-bar)^2 ) / (n - 1)

It would be helpful to have the sample data, however I cannot complete this task without it.

Please provide me with the data.

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