Standard deviation of the database that informs the points made by 5 basketball players is 5.97 points approximately.
Standard deviation:
For the calculation of the standard deviation, you must obtain the arithmetic average of the indicated data. Calculate the arithmetic average of the amount of points marked by 5 players.
ma = (4 + 21 + 11 + 6 + 8)/5 <
ma = 50/5
ma = 10
now, we need to calculate the Variance : We do the square of the difference between each point of points and the average quantities, then we add the results and divided by the total frequencies.
vr = [(4 - 10) ² + (21 - 10) ² + (11 - 10) ² + (6 - 10) ² + (8 - 10) ²] / 5
vr = [(-6) ² + 11² + 1² + (-4) ² + (-2) ²]/5
vr = [36 + 121 + 1 + 16 + 4]/5
vr = 178/5
vr ≈ 35.6
Standard deviation is the square root of the variance.
dp = √35.6
dp ≈ 5.97