Help
Contact
For teachers and institutes
Search courses, problems, tests…
A
A
>_
StemPy Lab
Courses ▾
Problems ▾
Practice ▾
Mock Tests
Classes
Community ▾
A
A
A technician measures the voltage of a battery five… | StemPy Lab
Quizzes
/
A technician measures the voltage of a battery five times and gets 10, 13, 14, 16 and 17 volts. She treats the readings as a random sample of all possible readings and wants an estimate of the variance of the voltage. What is the sample variance?
Mathematics
Hard
High School (11–12)
Statistics and Probability › Statistics
AP
A-Level
IB
AEEE (Amrita)
AMUEEE
AP EAPCET
+20 more exams
BCECE
CMI Entrance
COMEDK UGET
GUJCET
IAT (IISER)
ISI Admission Test
JCECE
JKCET
KCET
KEAM
KIITEE
LPUNEST
MET (Manipal)
MHT-CET
NEST (NISER)
Created by
StemPy Lab
A technician measures the voltage of a battery five times and gets
10
,
13
,
14
,
16
10, 13, 14, 16
10
,
13
,
14
,
16
and
17
17
17
volts. She treats the readings as a random sample of all possible readings and wants an estimate of the variance of the voltage. What is the sample variance?
2.74
V
2
2.74\ \text{V}^2
2.74
V
2
6
V
2
6\ \text{V}^2
6
V
2
7.5
V
2
7.5\ \text{V}^2
7.5
V
2
30
V
2
30\ \text{V}^2
30
V
2
Check Answer
Log in to save
Tag someone
⚑ Report
← All Quizzes
← A park ranger groups the lengths of 40 fallen branches, in classes of width 10 centimetres: 0 to 10 with frequency 3, 10 to 20 with 9, 20 to 30 with 14, 30 to 40 with 10 and 40 to 50 with 4. What is the median length, to two decimal places?
A statistician wants to compare how steady two data sets are when their means are very different and their units differ. Which expression gives the coefficient of variation of a data set with mean x and standard deviation σ? →
More on
Statistics and Probability › Statistics
Discussion (0)
Log in
to join the discussion.
Loading…
OJEE
SRMJEEE
TS EAPCET
UPESEAT
VITEEE
All questions on this topic →
Problems on this topic
A farmer records the number of days x since a seedling was planted and its height y in centimetres…
Hard
A dealer records the age x of six cars in months and the value y of each in hundreds of pounds: x =…
Medium
The regression lines of y on x and of x on y for some data have the correlation r = 0.6, with σx =…
Advanced
A study of two variables gives the two regression lines 6x - 5y + 10 = 0 and 10x - 3y - 26 = 0…
Hard
All problems on this topic →