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		<title>By: Miss Loi</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-822</link>
		<dc:creator>Miss Loi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While we&#039;re at this, there&#039;s another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/histograms-waiting-times-for-cashier-aunty-at-supermarket&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;statistical question&lt;/a&gt; back in the days when this blog was relatively quieter.

It requires yet another mean formula that&#039;s not listed here (you&#039;ll need to &lt;em&gt;assume&lt;/em&gt; something). 

As it is, it&#039;s still unsolved so do head over there and try it if you can ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While we're at this, there's another <a href="http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/histograms-waiting-times-for-cashier-aunty-at-supermarket" rel="nofollow">statistical question</a> back in the days when this blog was relatively quieter.</p>
<p>It requires yet another mean formula that's not listed here (you'll need to <em>assume</em> something). </p>
<p>As it is, it's still unsolved so do head over there and try it if you can <img src='http://www.exampaper.com.sg/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Miss Loi</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-821</link>
		<dc:creator>Miss Loi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A ton of confetti is coming your way Kiroii as you didn&#039;t fall into Miss Loi&#039;s trap (see the updated definition of &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; in &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;red&lt;/span&gt; above)!

As you can see this is a set of &lt;em&gt;grouped data&lt;/em&gt;, so we cannot use the first formula to calculate your mean.

Since the mean is now &lt;m&gt;{Sigma fx}/{Sigma f}&lt;/m&gt;, we get

&lt;m&gt;1.5={6(0)+4(1)+x(2)+2(3)+2(4)}/{6+4+x+2+2}&lt;/m&gt; 

Solving the above you&#039;ll get &lt;var&gt;x&lt;/var&gt; = 6.

Once again Miss Loi can&#039;t emphasize enough the importance of knowing which row in the table refers to your &lt;var&gt;x&lt;/var&gt; (the number of hours in this case) and which refers to your &lt;em&gt;frequency&lt;/em&gt; (the number of students in this case). Which is probably what led to your careless mistake in your earlier comment :P

Also many students get confused about the &#931;&lt;var&gt;f&lt;/var&gt; in the bottom of the equation. They ended up (in this example) adding up 0&#043;1&#043;2&#043;3&#043;4 or simply dividing the whole expression by 5!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A ton of confetti is coming your way Kiroii as you didn't fall into Miss Loi's trap (see the updated definition of <em>mean</em> in <span class="highlight">red</span> above)!</p>
<p>As you can see this is a set of <em>grouped data</em>, so we cannot use the first formula to calculate your mean.</p>
<p>Since the mean is now <img src="http://www.exampaper.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/wpmathpub/phpmathpublisher/img/math_985_75e191c9e2c9c299446a7c6c2dc59855.png" style="vertical-align:-15px; display: inline-block ;" alt="{Sigma fx}/{Sigma f}" title="{Sigma fx}/{Sigma f}"/>, we get</p>
<p><img src="http://www.exampaper.com.sg/wp-content/plugins/wpmathpub/phpmathpublisher/img/math_986_c508ae7d8100fb6d9e2a122cb653813c.png" style="vertical-align:-14px; display: inline-block ;" alt="1.5={6(0)+4(1)+x(2)+2(3)+2(4)}/{6+4+x+2+2}" title="1.5={6(0)+4(1)+x(2)+2(3)+2(4)}/{6+4+x+2+2}"/> </p>
<p>Solving the above you'll get <var>x</var> = 6.</p>
<p>Once again Miss Loi can't emphasize enough the importance of knowing which row in the table refers to your <var>x</var> (the number of hours in this case) and which refers to your <em>frequency</em> (the number of students in this case). Which is probably what led to your careless mistake in your earlier comment <img src='http://www.exampaper.com.sg/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also many students get confused about the &Sigma;<var>f</var> in the bottom of the equation. They ended up (in this example) adding up 0&#43;1&#43;2&#43;3&#43;4 or simply dividing the whole expression by 5!</p>
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		<title>By: Miss Loi</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-820</link>
		<dc:creator>Miss Loi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ignorantsoup, even a sexy Maths tutor can&#039;t beat your NUS idiot!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ignorantsoup, even a sexy Maths tutor can't beat your NUS idiot!</p>
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		<title>By: Miss Loi</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-819</link>
		<dc:creator>Miss Loi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Hum Sup Lou, all J&#966;ss Sticks readers are of the purest minds, totally removed from all worldly lusts and temptations ... ain&#039;t this true everybody? ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Hum Sup Lou, all J&phi;ss Sticks readers are of the purest minds, totally removed from all worldly lusts and temptations ... ain't this true everybody? <img src='http://www.exampaper.com.sg/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: kiroii</title>
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		<dc:creator>kiroii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NO crap HALT fer de 3rd question x is 6!~ &gt;.&lt; careless mistake</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NO crap HALT fer de 3rd question x is 6!~ &gt;.&lt; careless mistake</p>
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		<title>By: kiroii</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-813</link>
		<dc:creator>kiroii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>eh for de 3rd question is x 1.5 &gt;.&lt; de ans is queer though how can there be 1.5 students&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>eh for de 3rd question is x 1.5 &gt;.&lt; de ans is queer though how can there be 1.5 students&gt;.</p>
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		<title>By: ignorantsoup</title>
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		<dc:creator>ignorantsoup</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Miss Loi..116 pongs already..hahahaha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miss Loi..116 pongs already..hahahaha</p>
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		<title>By: Horny Ang Moh</title>
		<link>http://www.exampaper.com.sg/questions/e-maths/sexy-maths-tutor-know-your-vital-statistics#comment-808</link>
		<dc:creator>Horny Ang Moh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OhI Sorry (just saw ur message at myblog) if I &#039;polluted&#039; ur clean site ( now cleaning it with datol ). Goodbye,cheer &amp; have a nice day!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OhI Sorry (just saw ur message at myblog) if I 'polluted' ur clean site ( now cleaning it with datol ). Goodbye,cheer &amp; have a nice day!</p>
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		<title>By: Horny Ang Moh</title>
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		<dc:creator>Horny Ang Moh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh I C! Sorry sorry teacher! Enter the wrong class ( I think I even enter the wrong school! ). I should be in pokeing class advance level! He! He!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh I C! Sorry sorry teacher! Enter the wrong class ( I think I even enter the wrong school! ). I should be in pokeing class advance level! He! He!</p>
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		<title>By: Miss Loi</title>
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		<dc:creator>Miss Loi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Errr ... HAM,  are you at the wrong class? The latest O-Level syllabus didn&#039;t mention anything about 1-meter rulers. Tsk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Errr ... HAM,  are you at the wrong class? The latest O-Level syllabus didn't mention anything about 1-meter rulers. Tsk.</p>
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