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- Espresso shots: describe how far each shot time is from the mean in standard deviations.
- Post office letters: find the mean and standard deviation and interpret them.
- Apple orchard report: judge three students' readings of the mean and standard deviation.
- Give five judges' scores with a mean of 5 and a given standard deviation.
- Bike-share rides: see how a forgotten-to-dock outlier changes the mean and spread.
- Check Luis's reported standard deviation of his five quiz scores.
- Compare two runners' 400 m times using their means and standard deviations.
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Interpreting a standard deviation: the lesson ›More Chapter 12 worksheets: One-variable statistics
- 12.1Relative frequency histograms
- 12.2Percentiles
- 12.3Box plots that show outliers
- 12.4Variance of a data set
- 12.5Computing a standard deviation, sample and population
- 12.6Interpreting a standard deviation
- 12.7Shifting and rescaling a data set