The mean and variance of 20 observations

Question:

The mean and variance of 20 observations are found to be 10 and 4 , respectively. On rechecking, it was found that an observation 9 was incorrect and the correct observation was 11. Then the correct variance is

  1. $3.99$

  2. $3.98$

  3. $4.02$

  4. $4.01$


Correct Option: 1

Solution:

$\frac{\sum x_{i}}{20}=10 \Rightarrow \Sigma x_{i}=200$ .........(i)

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