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A retail conglomerate measures daily customer spending across two regional divisions with identical mean spending per customer. Division 1 surveyed N_1 = 40 transactions with a population variance of σ_1^2 = 100. Division 2 surveyed N_2 = 60 transactions with a population variance of σ_2^2 = 225.

What is the population standard deviation σ of the combined dataset of 100 transactions?

  1. 5√(7)
  2. 175
  3. 12.5
  4. dfrac5√(26)2
  5. dfrac50√(7)3√(11)

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