Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Descriptive Statistics - Section 2.5 Measures of Position - Exercises - Page 112: 45

Answer

(a) z ≈ 2.32 (b) An age of 36 is about 2.32 standard deviations above the mean. (c) Unusual

Work Step by Step

z = (x - μ) / σ = (36-28.1) / 3.4 = 2.32 Usual values have z score in the range -2 and 2
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