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A dietitian obtains the amounts of sugar (in centigrams) from 100 centigrams (or 1 gram) in each of 10 different cereals, including Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Fruit Loops, and 7 others. Those values are listed below. Is the standard deviation of those values likely to be a good estimate of the standard deviation of the amounts of sugar in each gram of cereal consumed by the population of all Americans who eat cereal? Why or Why not?
3 24 30 47 43 7 47 13 44 39 .

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