HP 50g Graphing Calculator User Manual

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The class mark data can be stored in variable S, while the frequency count can
be stored in variable W, as follows:

Given the list of class marks S = {s

1

, s

2

, …, s

n

}, and the list of frequency counts

W = {w

1

, w

2

, …, w

n

}, the weighted average of the data in S with weights W

represents the mean value of the grouped data, that we call

⎯s, in this context:

,

where

represents the total frequency count.

The mean value for the data in lists S and W, therefore, can be calculated using
the procedure outlined above for the weighted average, i.e.,

We’ll store this value into a variable called XBAR:

The variance of this grouped data is defined as

N

s

w

w

s

w

s

n

k

k

k

n

k

k

n

k

k

k

=

=

=

=

=

1

1

1

=

=

n

k

k

w

N

1

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