The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compiles reported cases and rates of diseases in United States cities and outlying areas. In a document titled Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance, the number of reported cases of all stages of syphilis is provided for cities, including Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas, Nevada. Following is the number of reported cases of syphilis for those two cities for the years 2002-2006.

a. Obtain the individual population means of the number of cases for both cities.
b. Without doing any calculations, decide for which city the population standard deviation of the number of cases is smaller.
Explain your answer.
c. Obtain the individual population standard deviations of the number of cases for both cities.
d. Are your answers to parts (b) and (c) consistent? Why or why not?

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Orlando 402 318 267 413 403 Las Vegas 81 123 225 300 354