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Q. Find the standard deviation for the following data:

$x_i$ 3 8 13 18 23
$f_i$ 7 10 15 10 6

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Solution:

Let us form the following table:
$x_i$ $f_i$ $ f_i x_i $ $x_i ^2$ $f_ix_i ^2$
3 7 21 9 63
8 10 80 64 640
13 15 195 169 2535
18 10 180 324 3240
23 6 138 529 3174
Total 48 614 9652

Now, $\left(\sigma\right) = \frac{1}{N} \sqrt{N\Sigma f_{i}x_{i}^{2} - \left(\Sigma f_{i} x_{i}\right)^{2}} $
$ = \frac{1}{48}\sqrt{48\times9652 -\left(614\right)^{2}} $
$ = \frac{1}{48} \sqrt{463296 - 376996}$
$ = \frac{1}{48} \times 293.77$
$= 6.12$