Which food results in a more uniform weight

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Rainbow Trout, Inc. feeds fingerling trout in special ponds and markets them when they attain a certain weight. A group of 9 trout (considered the population) were isolated in a pond and fed a special food mixture called Grow Em Fast. At the end of the experimental period, the weights of the trout were (in grams): 124, 125, 123, 120, 124, 127, 125, 126 and 121. Another special mixture, Fatso 1B, was used in another pond. The mean of the population was computed to be 126.9 grams and the standard deviation was 1.20 grams. Which food results in a more uniform weight?

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