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Not Sure but I read it somewhere that 68 % of data in a set lies within 1 standard deviation. This question is basically asking the same. How many elements lie within 1 standard deviation.
68% of 12 = 68/100*12 = 8.16 ~ 8

Hence answer is 8


What you are doing is correct except that there are 11 numbers instead of 12. Hence the answer will be 68% of 11 = 68/100*11 ~ 7
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Not Sure but I read it somewhere that 68 % of data in a set lies within 1 standard deviation. This question is basically asking the same. How many elements lie within 1 standard deviation.
68% of 12 = 68/100*12 = 8.16 ~ 8

Hence answer is 8

What you are doing is correct except that there are 11 numbers instead of 12. Hence the answer will be 68% of 11 = 68/100*11 ~ 7

SushantSaini

GMAC never asks us to calculate the standard deviation, so it doesn't really matter, but the above approach doesn't always work.

What if we add 106 to the list?

We now have 12 elements. The mean is 100.5 and the standard deviation is 3.45. One standard deviation below the mean is 97.05. One standard deviation above the mean is 103.95. The numbers that fall within that range are 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, and 103. That's 6.

68% of 12 is 8.16.

6 != 8.16.
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Not Sure but I read it somewhere that 68 % of data in a set lies within 1 standard deviation. This question is basically asking the same. How many elements lie within 1 standard deviation.
68% of 12 = 68/100*12 = 8.16 ~ 8

Hence answer is 8

Approach is nice!
You have missed to count the numbers.
There are total 11 numbers.

So, numbers within 1 standard deviation should be 68% of total numbers.

68% of 11 = 7.48 i.e. ~ 7

Hence answer (D)
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For the numbers 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105, if m represents the mean and d represents the standard deviation, how many are greater than m - d and less than m + d?

(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 7
(E) 8

There are total 11 numbers.
Numbers within 1 standard deviation should be 68% of total numbers.

68% of 11 = 7.48 i.e. ~ 7

Hence answer D.
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