3.which will give good standard deviation
1. (3,0,-3,0,3) 2. (3,-3,3,-3,3) 3. (3,3,3,3,3) 4.
(-3,-3,-3,-3,-3)

• mean of (3,0,-3,0,3)=3/5
  mean of (3,-3,3,-3,3)=3/5
  mean of (3,3,3,3,3)=3
  mean of (-3,-3,-3,-3,-3)=-3
  s.d of (3,3,3,3,3) & (-3,-3,-3,-3,-3) is same
  and s.d(3,-3,3,-3,3)>s.d(3,0,-3,0,3)
  so option 2 is correct
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• the standard deviation measures the amount of variation or dispersion from the average.A low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be very close to the mean (also called expected value); a high standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a large range of values...
  so knowing this definition , from option we see that #3 and #4 has no variation(since only one number) so option 3 and 4 are rejected . for option
  1 and 2 mean is 3/5 , we can see option #2 in comparisonto #1 has more deviation from avg.(as there are more occurence of -3 and 3 from mean) so option 2 is correct.
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• refer this link to understand standard deviation
  http://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-deviation-formulas.html
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• The standard deviation is found by taking the square root of the average of the squared differences of the values from their average value.
  
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• explain it
  
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• what is the formula?
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• what is the formula?
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