Step 1 :Calculate the mean of the data set \(\{9, 8, 6, 10, 2\}\)
Step 2 :Find the squared differences between each data point and the mean
Step 3 :Sum the squared differences \(\{4.0, 1.0, 1.0, 9.0, 25.0\}\)
Step 4 :Divide the sum of squared differences by the number of data points to get the variance
Step 5 :Take the square root of the variance to get the standard deviation
Step 6 :Round the standard deviation to the nearest hundredth
Step 7 :\(\boxed{2.83}\)