GRE Question of the Day (August 17)

Math

Which of the following would the data pattern shown above best describe?

(A) The number of grams of sugar in a selection of drinks is normally distributed.
(B) A number of male high school principals and a larger number of female high school principals have normally distributed salaries, distributed around the same mean.
(C) A number of students have normally distributed heights and a smaller number of taller, adult teachers also have normally distributed heights.
(D) The salary distribution for biologists skews to the left of the median.
(E) The maximum-weight bench presses for a number of male athletes are normally distributed and the maximum-weight bench presses for a smaller number of female athletes are also normally distributed, although around a smaller mean.

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