The Question Below Refers to the Following Situation

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Essay

The question below refers to the following situation:
Below are two distributions of final scores for separate statistics courses. The first is from the Fall term, the second is from the Spring term.
What do the different standard deviations between the Fall and Spring statistics courses indicate?

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