What is the standard deviation of the observations

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Concept:

Standard deviation:

The standard deviation of the observation set  is given as follows:

Where  and  .

 

Calculations:

First, we will calculate the mean of the given observations.

Therefore, the numerator inside the square root term of the standard deviation formula will simply be equal to  .

Now we observe that  .

Therefore, the standard deviation is given as follows:

Therefore, the standard deviation of the given observations is 2.

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