Step 1 :The width of the peak of a normal curve depends on the standard deviation. The standard deviation is a measure of how spread out numbers are. In a normal distribution, a low standard deviation indicates that the data points tend to be close to the mean, while a high standard deviation indicates that the data points are spread out over a wider range. Therefore, the width of the peak of the normal curve would depend on the standard deviation.
Step 2 :\(\boxed{\text{Final Answer: A. standard deviation}}\)