Yamaha divides the world into five regions, one of which is an "other" category. Data for 2010 net sales (in billions of Yen) appear in the table below.
Region | 2010 Net Sales (in Billion Yen) |
Japan | 147.0 |
North America | 156.7 |
Europe | 170.4 |
Asia | 645.0 |
Other Areas | 179.8 |
(sstdev=215.7, mean=260, total=1298.9)
If net sales had been reported in Million Yen, what would the sample standard deviation have been?
Billion yen means 10^9 yen and million neans 10^6 yen
Hence if values were in million, the sample standard deviation would be
215.7÷ 1000 = .2157
Yamaha divides the world into five regions, one of which is an "other" category. Data for...
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