Quality Control on the Bottling Line

Descriptive StatisticsMedium+20 XP+20

A machine is set to fill bottles with $500$ mL. Five bottles are pulled off the line and measured:

$495,\; 499,\; 499,\; 501,\; 506 \quad (\text{mL})$

Treat these five bottles as the whole population of interest.

What is the population variance of the fill volumes?

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Visualize signed deviations, squaring, and the step-by-step calculation of variance.

Variance Builder

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Builder Stage: 1 of 4

Step 1: Calculate the Population Mean (μ)

Sum up all values and divide by N.

μ = () / 0 = 0 / 0 = 0

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