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Estimate a standard deviation

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An IT service desk grouped the time to resolve 50 tickets:

Resolution time (hours)Frequency
0 to under 46
4 to under 87
8 to under 1212
12 to under 1613
16 to under 209
20 to under 243
Total50

Estimate the sample standard deviation of the resolution time, to 2 decimal places.

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