During the season, four members of the Salem baseball team made 4, 2, 6, and 4 home runs, respectively. For this distribution of home runs, the standard deviation is equal to the square root of

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The mean number of home runs is 4. The deviations from the mean are 0, -2, 2, and 0. Squaring these gives 0, 4, 4, and 0. The average of these squared deviations is 2, so the standard deviation is the square root of 2.

During the Season, Four Members of the Salem Baseball Team