Question: Number of English Words: Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary, 11^th Edition, has 1459 pages with defined words. Listed below are the numbers of defined words per page for a simple random sample of those pages. If we use this sample as a basis for estimating the total number of defined words in the dictionary , how does the variation of these numbers affect our confidence in the accuracy of the estimate?

51, 63, 36, 43, 34, 62, 73, 39, 53, 79