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Because the two distributions displayed below have similar shapes, they have the same standard deviation. true or false

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Answer:False

Explanation:

The shape of a distribution does not determine its standard deviation. Two distributions can have similar shapes but different standard deviations.

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Since there is no files attached to see the shape of the distribution, let us just have it this way:

The statement, "Because the two distributions displayed below have similar shapes, they have the same standard deviation." is false. This is false because distributions having the same mean and standard deviation can have very different shape of distribution.
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