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

question 202

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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