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= Solution

Equal <variances> make every weight $1/N$, so the <inverse-variance weighted mean> reduces to the <arithmetic mean>. Independence gives
$$
\boxed{\operatorname{Var}(\widehat\mu)=\frac{\sigma^2}{N},\qquad\operatorname{SD}(\widehat\mu)=\frac{\sigma}{\sqrt N}}.
$$
Thus the <variance> scales as $N^{-1}$, whereas the uncertainty expressed as a <standard deviation> scales as $N^{-1/2}$.

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