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Chauncey Billups, a current shooting guard for the Los Angeles Clippers, has a career free-throw percentage of 89.4%. Suppose he shoots six free throws in tonight's game. What is the standard deviation of the number of free throws that Billups will make?
A) 0.5364
B) 0.5686
C) 0.7540
D) 5.6860
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