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A made-up survey records how long people wait at a ticket office…

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A made-up survey records how long people wait at a ticket office. The mean wait is 12 minutes and the standard deviation is 3 minutes. A report needs the times in seconds. Find the mean, the standard deviation and the variance in seconds.

Need a reminder? The key ideaShow

For $y = a + bx$ : the mean and the median follow the change; the SD, the IQR and the range are multiplied by $|b|$ ; the variance by $b^2$ . Adding a number never changes a spread.

\displaystyle \bar{y} = a + b\bar{x}

The worked solution

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