After performing PCA, the first principal component (PC1) is

the direction in the data that:

Question

After performing PCA, the first principal component (PC1) is 
 
the direction in the data that:

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Separates the data into two clusters.

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Has the least amount of variance.

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Accounts for the maximum 
 
possible variance in the dataset.

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Is 
 
perpendicular to all original features.

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