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Computing a Standard Deviation, Sample and Population Worksheet with Answer Key

7 problems on computing standard deviation by hand: population versus sample, frequency tables, squared deviations, music teachers' years, beehive honey samples, ferry crossings, pottery bowls, and duplicated data sets. 2 pages, with a worked answer key.

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  1. Find the standard deviation of the music department's years of teaching, treated as a whole population.
  2. Beekeeper's honey: estimate the spread across all hives from a random sample of 4.
  3. Kevin's pet survey: find the sample standard deviation from a frequency table.
  4. Ferry crossings: find the sample standard deviation from the sum of squared deviations.
  5. Pottery class bowls: treat the class as a population and find its standard deviation.
  6. Compare data set A with data set B that repeats each value twice, as populations and as samples.
  7. Use a mean and standard deviation of four numbers to find what the numbers must be.

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