If each observation of a distribution with variance $\sigma^2$ is multiplied by $\lambda$,find the standard deviation of the new observations.

  • A
    $\sigma$
  • B
    $\lambda \sigma$
  • C
    $|\lambda| \sigma$
  • D
    $\lambda^2 \sigma$

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