Understanding Variance

Practice Questions

High School Math › Understanding Variance

Questions
3
1

A bird watcher observed how many birds came to her bird feeder for four days. These were the results:

Day 1: 15

Day 2: 12

Day 3: 10

Day 4: 13

What is the variance of the number of birds that visited the bird feeder over the four days?

2

The standard deviation of a population is 7.5. What is the variance of the population?

3

Alice recorded the outside temperature at noon each day for one week. These were the results.

Monday: 78

Tuesday: 85

Wednesday: 82

Thursday: 84

Friday: 82

Saturday: 79

Sunday: 80

What is the variance of the temperatures?

Return to subject