Let’s see how the grades varied against the average. This is called computing the variance.
A very large variance means that the students’ grades were all over the place, while a small variance (relatively close to the average) means that the majority of the students had similar grades.
Instructions
On line 18, define a new function called grades_variance that accepts one argument, scores, a list.
First, create a variable average and store the result of calling grades_average(scores).
Next, create another variable variance and set it to zero. We will use this as a rolling sum.
for each score in scores: Compute its squared difference: (average - score) ** 2 and add that to variance.
Divide the total variance by the number of scores.
Then, return that result.
Finally, after your function code, print grades_variance(grades).
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