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What is the standard deviation of Q, a set of consecutive integers?

(1) Q has 11 members.

(2) The median value of set Q is 10.



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What is the standard deviation of Q, a set of consecutive integers?

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IMO A)

Statement 1) should be suff. according to rule where if certain number is added or subtracted with all elements of set then standard deviation remains same.
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D since the numbers are consecutive.
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D?

two sets {9,10,11} and {7,8,9,10,11,12,13} have median 10 but SD are different for these two. Hence (2) is NOT SUFF
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What is the standard deviation of Q, a set of consecutive integers?

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1) is suff

sd=sqrt((a-x)^2)/n)
where n= no of elements =11
and given that they are consecutive so middle no will be the average so
sd=2(1^2+2^2+3^2+4^2+5^2)/11

the numbers are not required

to explain clearly take numbers as n,n+1,..........,n+10
avg=n+4

substitute in the formula of SD ull get the ans
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What is the standard deviation of Q, a set of consecutive integers?

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A.

1: no (11) of consecutive integers is enough to find the SD. suff
2: median doesnot work. median with different set of consecutive integers have different SD>. nsf..
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A.

Statement 1 If numbers are consecutive then the median = mean,plus the difference between the mean and each number is known, hence we can compute Sd

Statement 2: is insuff because the numbers could all be 10, they could be all close to 10, they could be consecutive, they could be al over the place, hence there is no way to calculate the SD



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