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A large corporation employs 21,995 individuals. The average income of all employees is $64,372, with a standard deviation of $18,985 and is skewed to the right. Consider this to be the population distribution. You are given a data set consisting of the incomes of 180 randomly selected employees. What is the population standard deviation?
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