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 ___________.
Correct answer: 44
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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