GMAT Quant Topic 2

Statistics

Mean

1. The table below provides revenues of a certain company in 2002 and 2003. By what percent did the
average quarterly revenue change from 2002 to 2003?

Quarterly revenues, MM USD

Quarter
2002 2003
1st 13 17
2nd 15 18
3rd 16 17
4th 16 20

2. During 2005, a company produced an average of 2,000 products per month. How many products will the
company need to produce from 2006 through 2008 in order to increase its monthly average for the period
from 2005 through 2008 by 200% over its 2005 average?
(A) 148,000 (B) 172,000 (C) 200,000 (D) 264,000 (E) 288,000

3. After his first semester in college, Thomas is applying for a scholarship that has a minimum Grade Point
Average (GPA) requirement of 3.5. The point values of pertinent college grades are given in the table
below. If Thomas took 5 courses, each with an equal weight for GPA calculations, and received two grades
of A , one grade of B+, and one grade of B, what is the lowest grade that Thomas could receive for his
fifth class to qualify for the scholarship?
Point Values of Select Grades
Grade A A B+ B B C+ C C
Value 4 3.7 3.3 3 2.7 2.3 2 1.7
(A) A (B) B+ (C) B (D) B (E) C+

4. A certain portfolio consisted of 5 stocks, priced at $20, $35, $40, $45, and $70, respectively. On a given
day, the price of one stock increased by 15%, while the price of another stock decreased by 35% and the
prices of the remaining three remained constant. If the average price of a stock in the portfolio rose by
approximately 2%, which of the following could be the prices of the shares that remained constant?
(A) $20, $35, and $70 (B) $20, $45, and $70 (C) $20, $35, and $40
(D) $35, $40, and $70 (E) $35, $40, and $45

5. If John makes a contribution to a charity fund at school, the average contribution size will increase by
50%, reaching $75 per person. If there were 5 other contributions made before John’s, what is the size of
his donation?
(A) $100 (B) $150 (C) $200 (D) $250 (E) $450

6. What is the minimum percentage increase in the mean of set X { 4, 1, 0, 6, 9} if its two smallest elements
are replaced with two different primes?
(A) 25% (B) 50% (C) 75% (D) 100% (E) 200%

7. If every member of set X { 14, 12, 17, 28, 41, Z} is multiplied by number N, by what percent will the
mean M of the set increase?
(1) Z = 60 (2) N = Z / M

8. Which of the following series of numbers, if added to the set {1, 6, 11, 16, 21}, will not change the set’s
mean?
I. 1.5, 7.11 and 16.89 II. 5.36, 10.7 and 13.24 III. 21.52, 23.3, 31.22
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and III only (E) None

9. If numbers N and K are added to set X {2, 8, 10, 12}, its mean will increase by 25%. What is the value of
N2 + 2NK + K2 ?
(A) 28 (B) 32 (C) 64 (D) 784 (E) 3600

10. Set X consists of different positive numbers arranged in ascending order: K, L, M, 5, 7. If K, L and M are
consecutive integers, what is the arithmetic mean of set X?
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 (1) The product K × L × M is a multiple of 6
(2) There are at least 2 prime numbers among K, L and M

11. A group of men and women gathered to compete in a marathon. Before the competition, each competitor
was weighed and the average weight of the female competitors was found to be 120 lbs. What
percentage of the competitors were women?
(1) The average weight of the men was 150 lb.
(2) The average weight of the entire group was twice as close to the average weight of the men as it was
to the average weight of the women.

12. The mean of (54,820)2 and (54,822)2 =

(A) (54,821)2 (B) (54,821.5)2 (C) (54,820.5)2 (D) (54,821)2 + 1 (E) (54,821)2 – 1

13. Set S consists of integers 7, 8, 10, 12, and 13. If integer n is included in the set, the average (arithmetic
mean) of set S will increase by 20%. What is the value of integer n?
10 12 16 22 24

14. A convenience store currently stocks 48 bottles of mineral water. The bottles have two sizes of either 20 or
40 ounces each. The average volume per bottle the store currently has in stock is 35 ounces. How many
40 ounce bottles must be sold for the average volume per bottle to be reduced to 25 ounces if no 20 ounce
bottles are sold?
10 20 30 32 34

15. Last year, the five employees of Company X took an average of 16 vacation days each. What was the
average number of vacation days taken by the same employees this year?
(1) Three employees had a 50% increase in their number of vacation days, and two employees had a 50%
decrease.
(2) Three employees had 10 more vacation days each, and two employees had 5 fewer vacation days
each.

16. In a room of men and women, the average weight of the women is 120 lbs, and the average weight of the
men is 150 lbs. What is the average weight of a person in the room?
(1) There are twice as many men as women.
(2) There are a total of 120 people in the room.

17. If set R contains the consecutive integers from 5 to 1, what is the mean of set R?
5 3 0 3 5

18. In Greenville last July, what was the average (arithmetic mean) home sale price?
(1) In Greenville last July, there were 100 homes sold for a total of $51 million.
(2) In Greenville last July, condominiums accounted for 60% of the home sales, and the average
condominium price was $450,000.

19. x, y, and z are positive integers. The average (arithmetic mean) of x, y, and z is 11. If z is two greater than
x, which of the following must be true?
I. x is even II. y is odd III. z is odd
I only II only III only I and II only I and III only

20. Set A contains the consecutive integers ranging from x to y, inclusive. If the number of integers in set A
that are less than 75 is equal to the number of integers that are greater than 75, what is the value of 3x +
3y?
225 300 372 450 528

21. In a work force, the employees are either managers or directors. What is the percentage of directors?
(1) the average salary for manager is $5,000 less than the total average salary.
(2) the average salary for directors is $15,000 more than the total average salary.

22. In the first week of last month, Company X realized an average wholesale profit of $5304 per day from the
sale of q units of Product Y. Which of the following CANNOT be the difference between Product Y’s sale
price and cost per unit?
$3 $4 $7 $11 $51

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 23. A certain bank has ten branches. What is the total amount of assets under management at the bank?
(1) There is an average of 400 customers per branch. When each branch’s average assets under
management per customer is computed, these values are added together and this sum is divided by
10. The result is $400,000 per customer.
(2) The bank has a total of 4,000 customers. When the total assets per branch are added up, each
branch is found to manage, on average, 160 million dollars in assets.

24. Three baseball teams, A, B, and C, play in a seasonal league. The ratio of the number of players on the
three teams is 2:5:3, respectively. Is the average number of runs scored per player across all three teams
collectively greater than 22?
(1) The average number of runs scored per player for each of the three teams, A, B, and C, is 30, 17,
and 25, respectively.
(2) The total number of runs scored across all three teams collectively is at least 220.

25. The average score of x number of exams is y. When an additional exam of score z is added in, does the
average score of the exams increase by 50%?
(1) 3x = y (2) 2z 3y = xy

26. A new cell phone plan is offering pricing based on average monthly use. Brandon and Jodie are comparing
their average use to determine the best plan for them. Brandon's average monthly usage in 2001 was q
minutes. Was this less than, greater than, or equal to Jodie's 2001 average monthly usage, in minutes?
(1) From January to August 2001, Jodie's average monthly usage was 1.5q minutes.
(2) From April to December 2001, Jodie's average monthly usage was 1.5q minutes.

27. On Jane's credit card account, the average daily balance for a 30 day billing cycle is average (arithmetic
mean) of the daily balances at the end of the 30 days. At the beginning of a certain 30 day billing cycle,
Jane's credit card account had a balance of $600. Jane made a payment of $300 on the account during the
billing cycle. If no other amounts were added to or subtracted from the account during the billing cycle, what
was average daily balance on Jane's account for the billing cycle?
(1) Jane's payment was credited on the 21st day of the billing cycle.
(2) The average daily balance through the 25th day of the billing cycle was $540.

28. L spends total $6.00 for one kind of D and one kind of C. How many D did he buy?
(1) the price of 2D was $0.10 less than the price of 3C
(2) the average price of 1 D and 1 C was $0.35

29. x, y, and z are consecutive integers, and x < y < z. What is the average of x, y, and z?
(1) x = 11 (2) The average of y and z is 12.5.

Median

1. Set A consists of numbers { 2, 27.5, 6, 18.3, 9} and set B consists of numbers { 199, 0.355,
19.98, 10, 201, 16}. The median of set B is how much greater than the median of set A?

2. Which of the following could be the median of a set consisting of 6 different primes?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 9.5 (D) 12.5 (E) 39

3. The median annual household income in a certain community of 21 households is $50,000. If the
mean income of a household increases by 10% per year over the next 2 years, what will the median
income in the community be in 2 years?
(A) $50,000 (B) $60,000 (C) $60,500 (D) $65,000 (E) Cannot get

4. What is the median of set A { 8, 15, 9, 4, N}?

(1) N is a prime and N6 is even (2) 2N + 14 < 20

5. T is a set of y integers, where 0 < y < 7. If the average of Set T is the positive integer x, which of the
following could NOT be the median of Set T?
(A) 0 (B) x (C) –x (D) y/3 (E) 2y/7

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6. a, b, and c are integers and a < b < c. S is the set of all integers from a to b, inclusive. Q is the set
of all integers from b to c, inclusive. The median of set S is (3/4) b. The median of set Q is (7/8) c.
If R is the set of all integers from a to c, inclusive, what fraction of c is the median of set R?
(A) 3/8 (B) ½ (C) 11/16 (D) 5/7 (E) 3/4

7. Jim Broke’s only source of income comes from his job as a question writer. In this capacity, Jim earns
a flat salary of $200 per week plus a fee of $9 for every question that he writes. Every year, Jim takes
exactly two weeks of unpaid vacation to visit his uncle, a monk in Tibet, and get inspired for the next
year. If a regular year consists of 52 weeks and the number of questions that Jim wrote in each of
the past 5 years was an odd number greater than 20, which of the following could be Jim’s median
annual income over the past 5 years?
(A) $22,474 (B) $25,673 (C) $27,318 (D) $28,423 (E) $31,227

8. Set A, Set B, and Set C each contain only positive integers. If Set A is composed entirely of all the
members of Set B plus all the members of Set C, is the median of Set B greater than the median of
Set A?
(1) The mean of Set A is greater than the median of Set B.
(2) The median of Set A is greater than the median of Set C.

9. If x and y are unknown positive integers, is the mean of the set {6, 7, 1, 5, x, y} greater than the
median of the set?
(1) x + y = 7 (2) x – y = 3

10. Given the ascending set {x, x, y, y, y, y}. What is greater, the median or the mean?

11. There is a set of numbers in ascending order: {y x, y, y, y, y, x, x, x, x + y}. If the mean is 9, and
the median is 7, what is x?

12. During a behavioral experiment in a psychology class, each student is asked to compute his or her
lucky number by raising 7 to the power of the student's favorite day of the week (numbered 1
through 7 for Monday through Sunday respectively), multiplying the result by 3, and adding this to
the doubled age of the student in years, rounded to the nearest year. If a class consists of 28
students, what is the probability that the median lucky number in the class will be a non integer?
(A) 0% (B) 10% (C) 20% (D) 30% (E) 40%

13. Given the ascending set of positive integers {a, b, c, d, e, f}, is the median greater than the mean?
(1) a + e = (3/4)(c + d) (2) b + f = (4/3)(c + d)

14. For the set of terms [x, y, x + y, x – 4y, xy, 2y], if y > 6 and the mean of the set equals y + 3, then
the median must be
(x + y) / 2 y+3 y 3y/2 (x/2) + y

15. What is the median value of the set R, if for every term in the set, Rn = Rn–1 + 3?
(1) The first term of set R is 15. (2) The mean of set R is 36.

16. Peter, Paul, and Mary each received a passing score on his/her history midterm. The average
(arithmetic mean) of the three scores was 78. What was the median of the three scores?
(1) Peter scored a 73 on his exam. (2) Mary scored a 78 on her exam.

17. Set A: 3, x, 8, 10 Set B: 4, y, 9, 11. The terms of each set above are given in
ascending order. If the median of Set A is equal to the median of Set B, what is the value of y – x?
2 1 0 1 2

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18. Set S includes elements {8, 2, 11, x, 3, y} and has a mean of 7 and a median of 5.5. If x < y, then
which of the following is the maximum possible value of x?
0 1 2 3 4

19. If set S consist of the numbers 1, 5, 2, 8, and n, is 0<n<7?

(1) the median of the numbers in S is less than 5.
(2) the median of the numbers in S is greater than 1.

20. Set S consists of five consecutive integers, and set T consists of seven consecutive integers. Is the
median of the numbers in set S equal to the median of the numbers in set T?
(1) The median of the numbers in set S is 0.
(2) The sum of the numbers in set S is equal to the sum of the numbers in set T.

21. The temperatures in Celsius recorder at 6 in the morning in various parts of a certain country were
10,5, 2, 1, 5 and 15. What is the median of these temperatures?
2 1 2 3 5

22. A student worked for 20 days. For each of the amounts shown in the first row of the table, the
second row gives the number of days that the students earned that amount. What is the median
amount of money that the student earned per day for the 20 days?

Amount earned per day $96 $84 $80 $70 $48

Number of days 4 7 4 3 2

23. Score Number and Interval of Scores

50 59 2
60 69 10
70 79 16
80 89 27
90 99 18
The table above shows the distribution of test scores for a group of management trainees, which
score interval contains the median of the 73 scores?
A. 60 69 B. 70 79 C. 80 89 D. 90 99 E. Can’t get

24. Last month 15 homes were sold in Town X. The average (arithmetic mean) sale price of the homes
was $ 150,000 and the median sale price was $130,000. Which of the following statement must be
true?
I. at least one of the homes was sold for more than $165,000
II. at least one of the homes was sold for more than $130,000 and less than $150,000
III. at least one of the homes was sold for less than $130,000

25. Five pieces of wood have an average (arithmetic mean) length of 124 centimeters and a median
length of 140 centimeters. What is the maximum possible length in centimeters of the shortest piece
of wood?
90 100 110 130 140

26. Amy's grade was the 90th percentile of the 80 grades for her class. Of the 100 grades from another
class, 19 was higher than Amy's and the rest was lower. If no other grade is the same as Amy' grade,
then Army's grade was what percentile of grades of two class combined.
72nd 80th 81st 85th 92nd

27.
Ann $450,000
Bob $360,000
Cal $190,000
Dot $210,000
Ed $680,000

The table above shows the total sales recorded in July for the five salespeople. It was discovered that
one of Cal’s sales was incorrectly recorded as one of Ann’s sales. After this error was corrected, Ann’s
total sales were still higher than Cal’s total sales, and the median of 5 sales totals was $330,000.
What was the value of the incorrectly recorded sale?
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 Mode

1. Set A, B, and C consist of the following elements:

A {0, 3, 4, 2, 0, 4, 7, 8, 4, 17} B {20, 12, 7, 9, 5, 7, 11, 5, 68} C { 1.5, 0, 1.5}. If Z is
defined as the sum of modes of sets A, B, and C, what is the value of Z?

2. The mode of a set of integers is x. What is the difference between the median of this set of integers and x?
(1) The difference between any two integers in the set is less than 3.
(2) The average of the set of integers is x.

Range

1. If set X contains numbers { 21, 6, 19, 126, 1000} and set Y contains numbers { 21, 990, 993, 996.19,
997.05, 999, 1000}, what is the difference between the ranges of set X and set Y?

2. Set X consists of prime numbers {3, 11, 7, K, 17, 19}. If integer Y represents the product of all elements in
set X and if 11Y is an even number, what is the range of set X?
(A) 14 (B) 16 (C) 17 (D) 20 (E) 26

3. What could be the range of a set consisting of odd multiples of 7?

(A) 21 (B) 24 (C) 35 (D) 62 (E) 70

4. What is the range of a set consisting of the first 100 multiples of 7 that are greater than 70?
(A) 693 (B) 700 (C) 707 (D) 777 (E) 847

5. Set X consists of all two digit primes and set Y consists of all positive odd multiples of 5 less than 100. If the
two sets are combined into one, what will be the range of the new set?
(A) 84 (B) 89 (C) 90 (D) 92 (E) 95

6. At a business school conference with 100 attendees, are there any students of the same age (rounded to the
nearest year) who attend the same school?
(1) The range of ages of the participants is 22 to 30, inclusive
(2) Participants represent 10 business schools

7. Set A consists of integers {3, 8, Y, 19, 6} and Set B consists of integers {K, 3, 0, 16, 5, 9}. Number L
represents the median of Set A, number M represents the mode of set B, and number Z = LM. If Y is an
integer greater than 21, for what value of K will Z be a divisor of 26?
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2

8. If two elements are dropped from set X { 10, 8, 0, 6, 7}, what will be the percentage change in its mean?
(1) The median of the set will remain the same (2) The range of the set will decrease by 3

9. If a randomly selected non negative single digit integer is added to set X {2, 3, 7, 8}, what is the probability
that the median of the set will increase while its range will remain the same?
(A) 20% (B) 30% (C) 40% (D) 50% (E) 60%

10. Set A consists of all positive integers less than 100; Set B consists of 10 integers, the first four of which are 2,
3, 5, and 7. What is the difference between the median of Set A and the range of Set B?
(1) All numbers in Set B are prime numbers;
(2) Each element in Set B is divisible by exactly two factors.

11. Set A consists of 8 distinct prime numbers. If x is equal to the range of set A and y is equal to the median of
set A, is the product xy even?
(1) The smallest integer in the set is 5. (2) The largest integer in the set is 101.

12. If set S = {7, y, 12, 8, x, 9}, is x + y less than 18?

(1) The range of set S is less than 9.
(2) The average of x and y is less than the average of set S.

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13 The GMAT is scored on a scale of 200 to 800 in 10 point increments. (Thus 410 and 760 are real GMAT scores
but 412 and 765 are not). A first year class at a certain business school consists of 478 students. Did any
students of the same gender in the first year class who were born in the same named month have the same
GMAT score?
(1) The range of GMAT scores in the first year class is 600 to 780.
(2) 60% of the students in the first year class are male.

14. S is a set of positive integers. The average of the terms in S is equal to the range of the terms in S. What is
the sum of all the integers in S?
(1) The range of S is a prime number that is less than 11 and is not a factor of 10.
(2) S is composed of 5 different integers.

15. If S is a finite set of consecutive even numbers, is the median of S an odd number?
(1) The mean of set S is an even number.
(2) The range of set S is divisible by 6.

16. 10 students took a chemistry exam that was graded on a scale of 0 to 100. Five of the students were in Dr.
Adams’ class and the other five students were in Dr. Brown’s class. Is the median score for Dr. Adams’
students greater than the median score for Dr. Brown’s students?
(1) The range of scores for students in Dr. Adams’ class was 40 to 80, while the range of scores for
students in Dr. Brown’s class was 50 to 90.
(2) If the students are paired in study teams such that each student from Dr. Adams’ class has a partner
from Dr. Brown’s class, there is a way to pair the 10 students such that the higher scorer in each pair
is one of Dr. Brown’s students.

17. x is an integer greater than 7. What is the median of the set of integers from 1 to x inclusive?
(1) The average of the set of integers from 1 to x inclusive is 11.
(2) The range of the set of integers from 1 to x inclusive is 20.

18. Stock number of shares

v 68
w 112
x 56
y 94
z 45

The table shows the number of shares of each of the 5 stocks owned by Mr. Sami. If Mr Sami was to sell 20
shares of Stock X and buy 24 shares of stock y, what would be the increase in range of the number of shares
of the 5 stocks owned by Mr Sami?
4 6 9 15 20

19. The numbers of books read by 7 students last year were 10, 5, p, q, r, 29 and 20. What was the range of the
numbers of books read by the 7 students last year?
(1) 5<p<q (2) p<r<15

20. A set of 15 different integers have a range of 25 and a median of 25. What is greatest possible integer that
could be in this set?
32 37 40 43 50

Standard Deviation

1. Find the SD of 7, 8, 9 and 10.

2. Set A consists of all prime numbers between 10 and 25; Set B consists of consecutive even integers, and set
C consists of consecutive multiples of 7. If all the three sets have an equal number of terms, which of the
following represents the ranking of these sets in an ascending order of the standard deviation?
(A) C, A, B (B) A, B, C (C) C, B, A (D) B, C, A (E) B, A, C

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3. Set A consists of all even integers between 2 and 100, inclusive. Set X is derived by reducing each term in set
A by 50, set Y is derived by multiplying each term in set A by 1.5, and set Z is derived by dividing each term
in set A by 4. Which of the following represents the ranking of the three sets in descending order of standard
deviation?
(A) X, Y, Z (B) X, Z, Y (C) Y, Z, X (D) Y, X, Z (E) Z, Y, X

4. If M is a negative integer and K is a positive integer, which of the following could be the standard deviation of
a set { 7, 5, 3, M, 0, 1, 3, K, 7}?
I. 1.5 II. 2 III. 0
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and III only (E) None

5. Sets A, B and C are shown below. If number 100 is included in each of these sets, which of the following
represents the correct ordering of the sets in terms of the absolute increase in their standard deviation, from
largest to smallest?
A {30, 50, 70, 90, 110}, B { 20, 10, 0, 10, 20}, C {30, 35, 40, 45, 50}
(A) A, C, B (B) A, B, C (C) C, A, B (D) B, A, C (E) B, C, A

6. If sets X and Y have an equal number of elements, does set X have a greater standard deviation than set Y?
(1) The difference between each pair of the neighboring elements is consistent throughout each set;
(2) Each of the first two elements in Set Y is twice greater than the corresponding first and second elements
in Set X.

7. The table below represents three sets of numbers with their respective medians, means and standard
deviations. The third set, Set [A+B], denotes the set that is formed by combining Set A and Set B.

Standard
Median Mean
Deviation
Set A X Y Z
Set B L M N
Set [A + B] Q R S

If X – Y > 0 and L – M = 0, then which of the following must be true?

I. Z > N II. R > M III. Q > R
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and II only (E) None

8. If the mean of a data set is 75 and the standard deviation is 10, what is the range of scores that fall within
one standard deviation of the mean?

9. The mean score of a class on a test was 60 and the standard deviation was 15. If Elena's score was within 2
standard deviations of the mean, what is the lowest score she could have received?

10. If y = ax + b, and if the standard deviation of x series is ‘S’, what is the standard deviation of y series?

11. If ax + by + c = 0, and if the standard deviation of x series is ‘S’, what is the standard deviation of y series?

12. If y = |x| – 100, and if the standard deviation of x series is ‘S’, what is the standard deviation of y series?

13. Three fair coins are labeled with a zero (0) on one side and a one (1) on the other side. Jimmy flips all three
coins at once and computes the sum of the numbers displayed. He does this over 1000 times, writing down
the sums in a long list. What is the expected standard deviation of the sums on this list?
(A) ½ (B) ¾ (C) √3/2 (D) √5/2 (E) 5/4

14. Let Set T = {2, 4, 5, 7}. Which of the following values, if added to Set T, would most increase the standard
deviation of Set T?
1 3 6 8 14

15. What is the standard deviation of Q, a set of consecutive integers?

(1) Q has 21 members.
(2) The median value of set Q is 20.

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16. Does data set A = {1, 2, x} have a greater standard deviation than data set B = {1, 2, 3}?
(1) x is greater than 3. (2) x is less than 1.

17. 9.4, 9.9, 9.9, 9.9, 10.0, 10.2, 10.2, 10.5

The mean and the standard deviation of the 8 numbers shown are 10 and 0.3, respectively. What percentage
of the 8 number's are within 1 standard deviation?
A) 90% B) 85% C) 80% D) 75% E) 70%

18. 70, 75,80,85,90,105,105,130,130,130

The list shown consists of the times, in seconds, that i took each of 10 schoolchildren to run a distance of 400
on of meters. If the standard devastation of the 10 running times is 22.4 seconds, rounded to the nearest
tenth of a second, how many of the 10 running times are more than 1 standard deviation below the mean of
the 10 running times?
a) one b) two c) three d) four e) five

19. The residents of town x participated in a survey to determine the number of hours per week each resident
spent watching television. The distribution of the result of the survey had a mean of 21 hours and a standard
deviation of 6 hours. The number of hours of that participated, a resident of town x watching television last
week was between 1 and 2 standard deviations below the mean. Which of the following could be the number
of hours the participated watched television last week?
a.30 b.20 c.18 d.12 e.6

20. 7.51 8.22 7.86 8.36 8.09 7.83 8.30 8.01 7.73 8.25 7.96 8.53
A vending machine is designed to despense 8 ounces of coffee into a cup.After a test that recorded the
number of ounces of coffee in each of 1,000 cups dispensed by the vending machine, the 12 listed amounts,
in ounces, were selected from the data. If the 1,000 recorded amounts have a mean of 8.1 ounces and a
standard standard deviation of 0.3 ounce, how many of the 12 listed amounts are within 1.5 standard
deviations of the mean?

21. A certain list of 100 data has an average of 6 and a standard deviation of d, where d is positive. Which of the
following pairs of data, when added to the list, must result in a list of 102 data with standard deviation less
than d?
A. 6 and 0 B. 0 and 0 C. 0 and 6 D. 0 and 12 E. 6 and 6

22. The lifetime of all the batteries produced by a certain company in a year have a distribution that is symmetric
about the mean m. If the distribution has a standard deviation of d, what percent of the distribution is greater
than m+d?
1) 68% of the distribution ties in the interval from m d to m+d, inclusive.
2) 16% of the distribution is less than m d

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