These types of questions involve ratios. So 2.5: 25 is equal to 25 : 250 and all i did was multiply both sides by 10. Then it says that he only has 1 pound of ground beef so 25* 1/25 is equal to one, and then 250 * 1/25 is equal to 10.
<span>The measure standard deviation quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.</span>The standard deviation is the square root of the variance. The standard deviation in this case is 50/ sqrt(100)= 50/10=5.