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Given the following raw scores, calculate the following values, show your calculations:

Scores: 9, 7, 8, 4, 8, 8,7, 8, 9, 6, 3
a. Range _____________________
b. Variance ____________________
c. Standard Deviation _____________________

Describe each of the following statistical terms, and where applicable, define with the appropriate equation:

a. Range _______________________________________________
b. Variance _____________________________________________
c. Standard Deviation ______________________________________

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a) Range: Largest - Smallest = 9 - 3 = 6

b) Variance = (Sum of the squares of the observations/ No. of observations) - ( Mean)2,
Where Mean = Sum of the observations / No. of observations
Sum = 77
Mean = ...

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