suppose that you made four measurement of a speed of a rocket: 12.7 km/s, 13.4 km/s, 12.6 km, and 13.3 km/s. compute: the mean, the standard deviations, and the standard deviation of the mean

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Answer:

Mean = 13 kilometer per second

Standard Deviation = 0.4082 kilometer per second

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following data set of rocket speed in kilometer per second in the question:

12.7, 13.4, 12.6, 13.3

Formula:

[tex]\text{Standard Deviation} = \sqrt{\displaystyle\frac{\sum (x_i -\bar{x})^2}{n-1}}[/tex]  

where [tex]x_i[/tex] are data points, [tex]\bar{x}[/tex] is the mean and n is the number of observations.  

[tex]Mean = \displaystyle\frac{\text{Sum of all observations}}{\text{Total number of observation}}[/tex]

[tex]Mean =\displaystyle\frac{52}{4} = 13[/tex]

Deviations from mean = -0.3, 0.4, -0.4, 0.3

Sum of squares of differences =

0.09 + 0.16 + 0.16 + 0.09 = 0.5

[tex]S.D = \sqrt{\dfrac{0.5}{3}} = 0.4082[/tex]

Mean = 13 kilometer per second

Standard Deviation = 0.4082 kilometer per second

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