A student studying statistics wants to look at data for his favorite sport, American football. He collects data on the lengths of 100 field goals from various games over several seasons. Would it be more appropriate to find a sample standard deviation or population standard deviation in this situation? Select the correct answer below:   A. Sample standard deviation   B. Population standard deviation

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A student studying statistics wants to look at data for his favorite sport, American football. He collects data on the lengths of 100 field goals from various games over several seasons.

Would it be more appropriate to find a sample standard deviation or population standard deviation in this situation?

  • Select the correct answer below:

 

A. Sample standard deviation

 

B. Population standard deviation

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