SOLUTION: Your mother has a rose garden. Every day, she sprays fertilizer on the roses in one section of the garden. Do you expect that the heights of the rose bushes are normally distribute

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Question 1141217: Your mother has a rose garden. Every day, she sprays fertilizer on the roses in one section of the garden. Do you expect that the heights of the rose bushes are normally distributed? Explain why or why not.
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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No, because a group of rose bushes would presumably grow faster than the rest, leading to a bimodal distribution or at least a non-normal one. The group getting fertilizer might be normally distributed narrowly around a mean, but that is not the issue here.