Figure with two tails

Answer:

BELL CURVE

Hint:

Not available

Explanation:

The clue plays on the double meaning of "tails." In statistics, a bell curve (or normal distribution) has two "tails"—the thin ends on either side where data points trail off. Meanwhile, "tails" also refers to the rear end of an animal or the flip side of a coin, making the wordplay clever by tying a visual shape to a literal term.

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