A very large corporation does research into the variability of reimbursed expenditures and finds that these expenses should follow a normal distribution. Expenditures from 1000 reimbursement requests from reimbursed expenditures are evaluated for normality using the Minitab plot shown here. Which statement is most accurate?
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The expenditures appear to be non-normal because they adhere closely to a linear pattern instead of a bell-shaped curve.
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The expenditures appear to be normal because they adhere closely to a linear pattern.
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The expenditures appear to be non-normal because they evidence a positive slope instead of a negative slope.
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The expenditures appear to be normal because there is very little space between the dots on the graph.
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