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Two thirds is just under seventy percent

If ᵗ ~ ᵗ, [[3, 1], [1, 3]]), then which of the following statements are true?

  1. A.The distribution of the second principal component is normal with mean 0 and variance 2.✓
  2. B.The variance of the first principal component is 4.✓
  3. C.The first principal component explains more than 70% of the total variance.
  4. D.The correlation coefficient between the first and the second principal components is 0.✓

You have the answer. Trap Analysis is why the other three were written.

Not a worked solution repeated four times — the specific reasoning error each wrong option was built to reward.

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Related counterexample: If every marginal is normal then the vector is multivariate normal

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