Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 5 - Normal Probability Distributions - Section 5.1 Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution - Exercises - Page 242: 11

Answer

The graph is not bell shaped and therefore this is not representing a normal distribution.

Work Step by Step

The mean, median and mode of a normal distribution are supposed to be equal. In this case the graph of the Normal distribution is supposed to be bell shaped and symmetric about the mean. Through a basic analysis we see that the graph is not bell shaped and thereby cannot represent a normal distribution.
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