alleryStart learning →All lengths in a data set double. Their arithmetic mean?
AHalves itself
BIncreases by 2
CDoubles too
DStays fixed
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Doubles too
Doubling every length doubles their sum while leaving the number of observations unchanged.
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