Edexcel S1 2001 June — Question 1

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2001
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeAdding data values

  1. Each of the 25 students on a computer course recorded the number of minutes \(x\), to the nearest minute, spent surfing the internet during a given day. The results are summarised below.
$$\Sigma x = 1075 , \Sigma x ^ { 2 } = 44625 .$$
  1. Find \(\mu\) and \(\sigma\) for these data. Two other students surfed the internet on the same day for 35 and 51 minutes respectively.
  2. Without further calculation, explain the effect on the mean of including these two students.
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