JEE Main & Advanced AIEEE Solved Paper-2004

  • question_answer
    In a series of\[2n\]observations, half of them equal\[a\]and remaining half equal\[-a\]. If the standard deviation of the observations is 2, then \[|a|\] equals

    A) \[\frac{1}{n}\]                  

    B)        \[\sqrt{2}\]                        

    C) \[2\]                     

    D)        \[\frac{\sqrt{2}}{n}\]

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    If corresponding frequency of each observations are\[{{f}_{1}},{{f}_{2}},....{{f}_{n}},\]then \[\sigma =\frac{\sqrt{\sum\limits_{i=1}^{n}{{{({{x}_{1}}-\overline{x})}^{2}}}}}{N}\] In the 2n observations, half of them equal to a and remaining half equal to\[-\text{ }a\]. Then, the mean of total n observations is equal to zero. \[\therefore \]  \[SD=\sqrt{\frac{\Sigma {{(x-\overline{x})}^{2}}}{N}}\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[2=\sqrt{\frac{\Sigma {{x}^{2}}}{2n}}\] \[\Rightarrow \]\[4=\frac{\Sigma {{x}^{2}}}{2n}\]\[\Rightarrow \]\[4=\frac{2n{{a}^{2}}}{2n}\] \[\Rightarrow \]               \[{{a}^{2}}=4\] \[\therefore \]  \[|a|=2\]


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