Which of the following expressions equals the population variance for a grouped…

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Problem

Which of the following expressions equals the population variance

\sigma^{2}

for a grouped frequency distribution with

N=\sum f_i

observations? (a)

\displaystyle \sigma^{2}=\frac{\left(\sum f_i x_i\right)^{2}}{\sum f_i}-\bar{x}^{2}

(b)

\displaystyle \sigma^{2}=\frac{\sum f_i\,(x_i-\bar{x})^{2}}{\sum f_i}

(c)

\displaystyle \sigma^{2}=\frac{\sum f_i\,(x_i-\bar{x})^{2}}{\sum f_i-1}

(d)

\displaystyle \sigma^{2}=\frac{\sum f_i x_i^{2}}{\sum f_i}-\bar{x}