A food company sells salmon to various customers. The mean weight of the salmon is 36 lb with a standard deviation of 2 lbs. The company ships them to restaurants in boxes of 4 salmon, to grocery stores in cartons of 49 salmon, and to discount outlet stores in pallets of 100 salmon. To forecast costs, the shipping department needs to estimate the standard deviation of the mean weight of the salmon in each type of shipment. What is the standard deviations of the mean weight of the salmon in each type of shipment?

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