Question

Find the sum of the absolute deviations of the following data set.8, 5, 15, 12, 10Choices:501012.514

Answer 1

Absolute deviation

Step one: finding the mean of the data

In order to find the mean we sum all data and divide it by 5 (the number of values)

$\frac{8+5+15+12+10}{5}=\frac{50}{5}=10$