Hmm, I'd say it's the first option.
Answer:

And for the deviation we have:

And that value represent the best estimator for the population deviation since:
Step-by-step explanation:
For this case we have the following data:
1.48,1.45,1.54,1.52,1.52
The first step for this cae is find the sample mean with the following formula:

And replacing we got:

And now we can calculate the sample variance with the following formula:

And replacing we got:

And for the deviation we have:

And that value represent the best estimator for the population deviation since:
Alright so one dozen cookies is 12 cookies. So 40 dozen cookies is 480 cookies (40x12). If there’s 157 students then u divide 480 by 157 which gets u 3.06 cookies per person
17,900 x 0.1296 = 2318.05
2318.05 should be subtracted from 17,900 and it should be somewhere around 15,581.95