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a researcher aks a sample of people about their attitudes toward same sex marriage and concludes that most people in her sample are strongly in favor of it, with relatively few people either undecided or against it. she reaches this conclusion because the shape of the distribution is?

1. normal 

2. flat 

3. skewed

4. bimodal

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Here, we consider the order of scale as undecided, favor, against.

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Normal distribution:

Normal distribution is a symmetric or bell-shaped arrangement of a dataset in which most of values cluster in the mean and the rest stop gradually symmetric towards either extreme.

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Most of the people is a specific sample are strongly in favor of same sex marriage, with relatively few people either undecided or against the same sex marriage. Therefore, based on the concept, the shape of the distribution is normal.

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