Energy Consumption. Refer to Table 16, which shows the per capita energy consumption (watts per person) for samples of countries on three continents for Exercises 75–78.

Table 3.61: Table 16 Per capita energy consumption for three samples of countries
Asia Europe North
America
China 447 Germany 861 USA 1402
Japan 774 France 804 Canada 1871
South Korea 1038 United Kingdom 622 Mexico 131
Table 3.61: Source: The World Factbook.

Question 3.190

energyconsumption

77. Without performing any calculations, use your results from the previous exercise to state which continent has (a) the largest standard deviation, and (b) the smallest standard deviation.

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(a) North America (b) Europe