The Heights of Adult Females Are Normally Distributed

question 10

Multiple Choice

The heights of adult females are normally distributed. If you were to construct a histogram of 40 randomly selected women, what shape would the histogram of those heights have and what pattern would you expect in a normal quantile plot of these data?

• A) The histogram would be approximately bell-shaped, and the normal quantile plot would have data points have follow a straight-line pattern.
• B) The histogram would by approximately bell-shaped, and the normal quantile plot would have data points that would be bell-shaped.
• C) The histogram would by non-symmetric, and the normal quantile plot would have data points that would be non-linear.
• D) The histogram would by approximately bell-shaped, and the normal quantile plot would have data points that would be non-linear.

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