Finding percentage value of standard deviation when given number of elements in sample, and population's standard deviation

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I'm faced with an exercise that goes as such:

"A sample of 81 elements is taken from a population whose standard deviation is 3.

What is the approximate value of the mean's sample deviation, in percentage?"

I can then pick from a list of choices:

  • 54%
  • 12%
  • 67%
  • 20%
  • 33%

I know for a fact that the right answer is 33%, but I can't figure out why.

When hearing about "standard deviation in percentage" I instantly think of multiplying the standard deviation's value by 100 and dividing that by the mean/average, the problem being I'm not given the mean. How do I go about this?