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The standard normal transformation: a) involves subtracting the mean so as to center the transformed distribution on zero, b) involves division by the standard deviation so as to standardize the transformed variance to one, c) is used to make inference about all normal distributions based upon the standard normal distribution, d) is the number of standard deviations by which a random variable differs from its mean, e) All the above.

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