Day 1: Standard Deviation Puzzles #2

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Objective
In this challenge, we practice calculating standard deviation.

Task
The heights of a group of children are measured. The resulting data has a mean of meters, and a standard deviation of meters. One particular child is centimeters tall. Compute , the number of standard deviations away from the mean that the particular child is.

Enter the value of , correct to a scale of two decimal places.

Output Format

Your output must be a floating point/decimal number, correct to a scale of decimal places. You can submit solutions in either of the following ways:

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Your answer format should resemble something like:

4.23

(This is NOT the answer, just a demonstration of the answering format.)

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