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Shift A has 7 hourly output scores with mean 14 and standard deviation 4. Shift B has 14 hourly output scores with mean 21 and standard deviation 7.

Treating each standard deviation as the population root-mean-square deviation from its group mean, what is the combined population standard deviation of all 21 observations?

  1. 6.00
  2. 5.50
  3. 6.99
  4. 7.00
  5. 174.14

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