9709 P63 - Jun 2018 - Q4
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Farfield Travel and Lacket Travel are two travel companies which arrange tours abroad. The numbers of holidays arranged in a certain week are recorded in the table below, together with the means and standard deviations of the prices.
| Number of holidays | Mean price ($) | Standard deviation ($) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farfield Travel | 30 | 1500 | 230 |
| Lacket Travel | 21 | 2400 | 160 |
(i) Calculate the mean price of all 51 holidays.
(ii) The prices of individual holidays with Farfield Travel are denoted by $x_F$ and the prices of individual holidays with Lacket Travel are denoted by $x_L$. By first finding $\sum x_F^2$ and $\sum x_L^2$, find the standard deviation of the prices of all 51 holidays.
