If the variance of a dataset is 16, what is its standard deviation?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 4
- Step 1: By definition, the standard deviation is the positive square root of the variance: .
- Step 2: .
Answer
4.
Why not the others: '2' is ; '8' is ; '256' squares the variance ().
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