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Answer:

9.45 ounces

Explanation:

The formal definition of the standard deviation of a population is that it is the square root of the mean of the squares of the differences between the data values and their mean.

The calculation can be done more simply as the root of the difference between the mean of the squares and the square of the mean. That is the calculation shown in the attachment.

The population standard deviation is about 9.45 ounces.

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Additional comment

The easier way to do the calculation is to use the calculator or spreadsheet function that gives the result directly. For the Desmos calculator shown, that function is stdevp(w) for the definition of w that we used. The function has the same name in many spreadsheet programs.

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