Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32192-459-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 3 - Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data - 3-4 Measures of Relative Standing and Boxplots - Page 123: 1

Answer

Madison's height is under the mean and 2.28 standard deviations away.

Work Step by Step

A z-score indicates how many standard deviations an element is from the mean, therefore here, because the z-score is negative, Madison's height is under the mean and also, because the z-score's value is -2.28, his height is 2.28 standard deviations away from the mean.
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