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Petroleum pollution in oceans stimulates the growth of certain bacteria. An assessment of this growth has been made by counting the bacteria in each of randomly chosen specimens of ocean water (of a fixed size). The counts obtained were as follows:

41, 60, 44, 56, 69

Find the standard deviation of this sample.

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Hi, I have used Excel to find this standard deviation. Please see attached files. The standard deviation is 11.6.

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Estimates standard deviation based on a sample. The standard deviation is a measure of how widely values are ...

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