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Q8 A car insurance agent was concerned about losing customers to an online compe

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Q8 A car insurance agent was concerned about losing customers to an online competitor. To investigate, he randomly selected profiles (type of car, coverage, driving record, etc.) for 7 of his clients and checked online price quotes for their policies. The comparisons are shown to the right. His statistical software produced the displayed summaries (where PriceDiffequals=Localminus? Online).At first, the insurance agent wondered whether there was some kind of mistake in this output. He thought the Pythagorean Theorem of Statistics should work for finding the standard deviation of the

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This is paired data.

Hence D is the answer

The sum of variances follows only for independent variables.