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Find the population standard deviation $\\sigma$ of the following list of numbers {data}.
\nGive your answer correct to 2 d.p.
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\nStandard deviation = $\\sqrt{\\frac{\\Sigma (x-\\text{mean})^2}{n}}$
\n\nSo we must:
\nYou have not given your answer to the correct number of decimal places.
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\nPopulation standard deviation, $\\sigma = \\sqrt{\\frac{\\Sigma (x-\\text{mean})^2}{n}}$
\n\n(note this is slightly different to the formula used to calculate the sample standard deviation, $s$)
\n\nSo we must:
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