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An exam board checks the marks of 25 candidates…
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An exam board checks the marks of candidates. The first report gave a mean of and a standard deviation of . A clerk then finds that two marks were copied wrongly. A mark of should have been , and a mark of should have been . The board wants the figures corrected before the report goes to the schools. It also wants to know whether the candidates are now more or less consistent, so it asks for the coefficient of variation of the corrected marks. You do not have the individual marks, only the totals that follow from the mean and the standard deviation. Find the corrected mean, the corrected variance, the corrected standard deviation and the corrected coefficient of variation.
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Step 1. The old totals. and .
Step 2. The corrected totals. . .
Step 3. The mean. , unchanged, because the two corrections add up to the same total.
Step 4. The variance. . The standard deviation is .
Step 5. The coefficient of variation. .
Answer: mean , variance , standard deviation and coefficient of variation .
What it means. The mean did not move, but the spread fell from to . The correct marks lie closer to the mean.
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