If You Calculated the Standard Deviation for a Distribution of 20

question 10

Multiple Choice

If you calculated the standard deviation for a distribution of 20 scores,removed the 5 highest scores and recalculated,the value of the standard deviation would

• A)increase.
• B)stay the same.
• C)decrease.
• D)be reduced by five.

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Definitions:

Elimination Product

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