Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences 8th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1133956572
ISBN 13: 978-1-13395-657-0

Chapter 4 - Measures of Variability - Problems - Page 115: 6

Answer

a. 70 is not considered an extreme value when standard deviation equals to 20 since it falls between 1 standard deviation from the mean (80). b. 70 is not considered an extreme value when standard deviation equals 5 because 70 falls at 2 standard deviations from its mean score (80).

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