On a 10-Item Test, Three Students in Professor Hsin's Advanced

question 129

Multiple Choice

On a 10-item test, three students in Professor Hsin's advanced chemistry seminar received scores of 2, 5, and 8, respectively. For this distribution of test scores, the standard deviation is equal to the square root of

• A)4.
• B)5.
• C)6.
• D)9.

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Milgram Experiment

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