enter the following data into your calculator and then use the $1-$Var Stats command $($or

equivalent command if not using a TI$-83/84$ type calculator$)$ to answer the questions below.

The following data is the number of pages for each story for a sample of stories from The Bedside Book

of Famous British Stories:

Story: Pages:

The Vision of Mirza $4$

The Two Drovers $23$

Con Cregan$$s Legacy $5$

A Christmas Carol $26$

A Lodging for the Night $17$

The Birthday of the Infanta $15$

Youth $26$

The Adventure of the Speckled Band $22$

That Brute Simmons $6$

The Man Who Would Be King $29$

Red $18$

The Sword of Welleran $12$

Jeeves and the Song of Songs $17$

Purple and Fine Linen $20$

Bella Fleece Gave a Party $8$

$1.$ What is the mean number of pages for this sample?

$2.$ What is the standard deviation for this sample?

$3.$ If this was the complete list of stories in the book, and we considered it to be the population of

stories that we were interested in$,$ the standard deviation would be $\backslash$sigma $($or $\backslash$sigma x$)=7\mathrm{.}8$ or $7\mathrm{.}82,$ rather

than the answer to question $2$ you put down above. True or false?