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The mean and standard deviation of 20 observations are found to be 10 and 2, respectively. One rechecking, it was found that an observation 8 was incorrect. Calculate the correct mean and standard deviation in each of the following cases.
(i)      If wrong item is omitted
(ii)     If it is replaced by 12.

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(i) Given, number of observations `n=20`
Incorrect mean `=10`
Incorrect standard deviation `=2` $$ \begin{aligned} &\overline{\mathrm{x}}=\frac{1}{\mathrm{n}} \sum_{\mathrm{i}=1}^{20} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}} \\ ...
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