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What happens to the curve when the standard deviation is increased? What does that do to the area under the curve?


What happens to the curve when the standard deviation is decreased? What does that do to the area under the curve?

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The standard deviation of a normal distribution determines the width or spread of a bell curve. The larger the standard deviation, the wider the graph. Percentiles represent the area under the normal curve, increasing from left to right.

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