GMAT Prep DS Standard Deviation

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GMAT Prep DS Standard Deviation

by oct07 » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:56 pm
Can someone help to explain in details the answer for this question?

During an experiment, some water was removed from each of 6 water tanks. If the standard deviation of the volumes of water in the tanks at the beginning of the experiment was 10 gallons, what was the standard deviation of the volumes of water in the tanks at the end of the experiment?

(1) For each tank, 30% of the volume of water that was in the tank at the beginning of the experiment was removed during the experiment.

(2) The average (arithmetic mean) volume of water in the tank at the end of the experiment was 63 gallons.

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