Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 12 - Statistics - 12.3 Measures of Dispersion - Exercise Set 12.3 - Page 801: 40

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

The range only gives information about the "width" of the data set, but we do not know how close to the mean the items generally lie, which is obtainable from the standard deviation.
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