Thinking Mathematically (6th Edition)

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Chapter 12 - Statistics - 12.4 The Normal Distribution - Exercise Set 12.4 - Page 814: 57

Answer

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Work Step by Step

$\text{z-score}=\frac{\text{data item-mean}}{\text{standard deviation}}$ Hence here the z-scores: $z_1=\frac{128-100}{16}=1.75,z_2=\frac{127-100}{15}=1.8$, thus the person doing the Wechsler test has a higher score.
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