Statistics

In a discrete data $\frac{1 \text { th }}{4}$ of the observations are equal to $a$, another $\frac{1 \text { th }}{4}$ of the observations are equal to $-a$. Out of the remaining, half of them are equal to $b$ and the rest are equal to $-b$. If the variance of all the observations is $(a b)$, then