medium · GMAT Quant
A set of numbers has a standard deviation σ. The set is transformed by first adding 5 to each number and then multiplying each resulting number by 2.
What is the new standard deviation?
- 4σ
- 2σ + 5
- σ + 5
- 2σ
- 2σ + 10
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