Which of the following sets of data has the least standard deviation?

Two plants $A$ and $B$ of a factory show the following results regarding the number of workers and the wages paid to them:

\text{Parameter}	\text{Plant } $A$ \text{ and } $B$ \text{ Data}
\text{No. of workers}	$A: 500, B: 6000$
\text{Average monthly wages}	$A: Rs. 2500, B: Rs. 2500$
\text{Variance of distribution of wages}	$A: 81, B: 100$

In which plant,$A$ or $B$,is there greater variability in individual wages?

The mean and standard deviation of some data for the time taken to complete a test are calculated with the following results:
Number of observations $= 25$,mean $= 18.2 \text{ seconds}$,standard deviation $= 3.25 \text{ s}$.
Further,another set of $15$ observations $x_{1}, x_{2}, \ldots, x_{15}$,also in seconds,is now available and we have $\sum_{i=1}^{15} x_{i} = 279$ and $\sum_{i=1}^{15} x_{i}^{2} = 5524$. Calculate the standard deviation based on all $40$ observations.

If the mean and variance of five observations are $\frac{24}{5}$ and $\frac{194}{25}$ respectively,and the mean of the first four observations is $\frac{7}{2}$,then the variance of the first four observations is equal to:

Let $X_{1}, X_{2}, \ldots, X_{18}$ be eighteen observations such that $\sum_{i=1}^{18}(X_{i}-\alpha)=36$ and $\sum_{i=1}^{18}(X_{i}-\beta)^{2}=90$,where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are distinct real numbers. If the standard deviation of these observations is $1$,then the value of $|\alpha-\beta|$ is ...... .

The mean and variance of a set of $15$ numbers are $12$ and $14$ respectively. The mean and variance of another set of $15$ numbers are $14$ and $\sigma^2$ respectively. If the variance of all the $30$ numbers in the two sets is $13$,then $\sigma^2$ is equal to $.........$.