The variance is the
A)average of the deviations from the mean divided by N.
B)average of the squared deviations from the mean.
C)sum of the deviations from the mean divided by N.
D)sum of the squared deviations from the mean.

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The variance is calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean. This gives a measure of how spread out the data is from the average value. The formula for variance is: variance = (sum of (xi - mean)^2) / N, where xi is each data point, mean is the average of the data, and N is the number of data points.

The Variance Is the