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(AJY)</p>\n<p><strong>28/11/2013</strong></p>\n<p>Complete overhaul. (AJY)</p>\n<p><strong>23/07/2013:</strong></p>\n<p>Question created. Tags added.<strong></strong></p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", "description": "<div class=\"description\">\n<p>Topics covered are calculating the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation.</p>\n</div>"}, "variablesTest": {"condition": "", "maxRuns": 100}, "advice": "<p>a)</p>\n<p>The <strong>mean</strong> of a set of numbers $\\left(x_1,\\ldots,x_N\\right)$ is given by</p>\n<p>\\[\\mu = \\frac{1}{N}\\sum_{i=1}^N x_i.\\]</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>b)</p>\n<p>The <strong>median</strong> is the middle value when the set of numbers is ordered.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>c)</p>\n<p>The <strong>mode</strong> is the most common value in the set.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>d)</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>range</strong> is the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value in the set.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>e)</p>\n<p>The <strong>standard deviation</strong> is given by</p>\n<p>\\[\\sigma = \\sqrt{ \\frac{1}{N-1} \\left[ \\sum_{i=1}^N x_i^2 \\right] - \\mu^2}.\\]</p>", "contributors": [{"name": "Newcastle University Mathematics and Statistics", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/697/"}]}]}], "contributors": [{"name": "Newcastle University Mathematics and Statistics", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/697/"}]}