2025 YCKSS PRELIMS P1 Q21

2025 YCKSS PRELIMS P1 Q21

Secondary 4
5 marks

Kalea's weekly study hours over seven weeks are \(7,6t,28,25,13,8t^2,12\), with mean 16 hours.

  1. Show that \(t=1.5\).[3]
  2. Kalea has standard deviation 7.41. Her brother has mean 13 hours and standard deviation 5.23 over the same weeks. Compare their distributions by commenting on both means and standard deviations.[2]

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Answer:(a) \(t=1.5\) (b) Kalea has the higher mean and greater spread.

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