friends kept track of how many times they sent a text over a one hour period. The results are in the table below.

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Section10.5: Comparing Sets Of Data
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Ten friends kept track of how many times they sent a text over a one hour period. The results are in the table below.
number of texts 5 6 7 7 8 10 10 15 16 17
They determine that the mean of the data set is 10.110.1, but they also want to know the range and standard deviation.
Calculate the range of the data set.

Is it Correct answer 12? 
Calculate the POPULATION (since it's just two friends, they're the population) standard deviation of the data set.

Is it Correct answer 4.16? 

Round your result to the two decimal places as needed.
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