A polling company surveying public opinion on Obama's health-care plan finds public opinion to be almost evenly divided, for and against. The graph of such a distribution would be characterized as

A) normal.
B) skewed.
C) reversed.
D) modal.
E) bimodal.


E

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a. Somalia b. Iraq c. Grenada d. Panama e. Syria

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