Fasting Blood Sugar Values Table

Alpha FBS Group

95

100

125

175

250

Beta FBS Group

90

100

125

200

550

1.The standard deviation (SD) for the Alpha FBS Group = 64.75.What do these values say about how the data vary around the mean for each group? Vary between groups?

2.The standard deviation (SD) for Beta FBS Group = 193.25. What do these values say about how the data vary around the mean for each group? Vary between groups?

3.If you had each patient's fasting blood sugar value and age, what procedure will you use to make comparisons among unlike data?

4.If the data sets approximated a normal distribution, then what percentage of patients' fasting blood sugar values would fall within two SDs of the mean?