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Introduction to statistics

Question

If the S.D. of a set of observations is 8 and if each observation is divided by - 2, the S.D. of the new set of observations will be

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Solution

We know that if X and Y are two variables such  that Y=Xa,a0. Then,

Y=Xa,a0

 S.D. of the new observations =8|2|=4



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