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Re: The standard deviation of the dataset 10, 20, 30 [#permalink]
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Can't we simply eyeball the standard deviation here?

Standard deviation measures 'how far' a set of values are from the arithmetic mean of that set, and we know µa and µb=20. Looking at B we know that there are 5 values that correspond with the µ so the standard deviation will be smaller as the spread will be smaller, meaning that we can safely say SD A> SD B. Simply put, there is more variability in A.
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Re: The standard deviation of the dataset 10, 20, 30 [#permalink]
I went for the eyeball method with a calculation of the mean for quantity B just to be sure it was 20 (probably a waste of time)
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