You Find a Rock and You Think the Mineral Makeup

question 16

Multiple Choice

You find a rock and you think the mineral makeup is calcite. What evidence would indicate this?

• A) It is hard, therefore it is calcite.
• B) It breaks into 6-sided pieces, therefore it is calcite.
• C) It is pink, therefore it is calcite.
• D) It is very heavy, therefore it is calcite.

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Definitions:

Skewed Distribution

A representation of data that is not symmetric and where one tail of the distribution is longer or fatter than the other.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

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Normal Distribution

A probability distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.