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JEE Advanced2026Paper 2MATH-III
Q.

Consider a data consisting of 10 observations , whose mean is 5 and variance is 7. If the mean and the variance of the first 8 observations are 4 and 3.5, respectively, and , then the value of is ___________.

Solution

From the means: and , so .

From the variances: gives , and gives .

Therefore .

Substituting : , so , i.e. .

The roots are or . Since and , we need , so and .

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