The Variance of a set of data is defined as the average of the square of the deviation from the mean.
The first step is to calculate the mean of the data.
[tex]\frac{10+11+12+13+14+18}{6}=13[/tex]Now we take the difference from the mean, square it, and then average the result.
[tex]\frac{(10-13)^2+(11-13^2)+(12-13)^2+(13-13)^2+(14-13)^2+(18-13)^2}{6}[/tex][tex]\Rightarrow\frac{9+4+1+0+1+25}{6}[/tex][tex]\Rightarrow6.67[/tex]Hence, the variance of the data is 6.7 (rounded to the nearest tenth)
