Question

Find the mean and standard deviation using short-cut method.

xi	60	61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68
fi	2	1	12	29	25	12	10	4	5

Answer 1

The data is obtained in tabular form as follows.

xi	fi		yi2	fiyi	fiyi2
60	2	–4	16	–8	32
61	1	–3	9	–3	9
62	12	–2	4	–24	48
63	29	–1	1	–29	29
64	25	0	0	0	0
65	12	1	1	12	12
66	10	2	4	20	40
67	4	3	9	12	36
68	5	4	16	20	80
	100	220		0	286

Mean,