Assume That the Mean of a Distribution Is Ten and Standard

question 24

Multiple Choice

Assume that the mean of a distribution is ten and standard deviation is 2. If we subtracted each value in that distribution from the mean and added them up, the result would be close to:

• A)100
• B)2
• C)50
• D)0
• E)200

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