FINDING STANDARD DEVIATION OF UNGROUPED DATA

Example 1 :

Find the variance and standard deviation of the wages of 9 workers given below:

₹310, ₹290, ₹320, ₹280, ₹300, ₹290, ₹320, ₹310, ₹280.

Solution :

First, let us write the wages of 9 workers in ascending order.

280, 280, 290, 290, 300, 310, 310, 320, 320

Σd²/n  =  2000/9

(Σd/n)²  =  (0/9)²  =  0

σ  =  √(2000/9)

σ  =  √222.22

σ  =  14.91

Example 2 :

A wall clock strikes the bell once at 1 o’ clock, 2 times at 2 o’ clock, 3 times at 3 o’ clock and so on. How many times will it strike in a particular day. Find the standard deviation of the number of strikes the bell make a day.

Solution :

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (From early morning to afternoon)

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (From after noon to midnight)

Standard deviation for 1st n natural numbers

σ  =  [√((n² - 1)/12)]

σ  =  [√((12² - 1)/12)]

σ  =  [√143/12]

σ  =  √11.92

σ  =  3.45

Standard deviation for the given data = 3.45 + 3.45

σ  =  6.9

Example 3 :

Find the standard deviation of first 21 natural numbers

Solution :

σ  =  [√((n² - 1)/12)]

σ  =  [√((21² - 1)/12)]

σ  =  [√440/12]

σ  =  √36.67

σ  =  6.05

Example 4 :

If the standard deviation of a data is 4.5 and if each value of the data is decreased by 5, then find the new standard deviation.

Solution :

The standard deviation will not change when we add or subtract some fixed constant to all the values.

So, the standard deviation for the new set of data is also 4.5. 

Example 5 :

If the standard deviation of a data is 3.6 and each value of the data is divided by 3, then find the new variance and new standard deviation.

Solution :

While multiplying or dividing every element by the constant "k" then the standard deviation will be multiplied or divided by some constant "k".

Since we multiply every element by 3, we have to divide the standard deviation by 3 to obtain the standard deviation of new data set.

  =  3.6/3

  =  1.2

Variance  =  1.44

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