Stats Modeling the World, 4th Edition

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Chapter 5 - The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model - Exercises - Page 133: 23

Answer

$6$ years

Work Step by Step

$z=\frac{y-\mu}{\rho}$ $y=\mu+z\times\rho$ Let's place some numbers: $\mu=15~years$ and $z=3$ : - if $\rho=6~months=0.5~year$ then $y=15+3\times0.5=16.5~years$ - if $\rho=6~years$ then $y=15+3\times6=33~years$ - if $\rho=16~year$ then $y=15+3\times16=63~years$ Where $z=3$ represents teachers with the largest experience. The standard deviation of $6$ years seems to be the correct one.
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