For 5 year old children, the mean weight is 51.01 pounds with a standard deviation of 3.98 pounds. Convert the following observations into z-scores. 45.67 50 63.44 48 56.81
For 5 year old children, the mean weight is 51.01 pounds with a standard deviation of 3.98 pounds. Convert the following observations into z-scores. 45.67 50 63.44 48 56.81
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Chapter10: Statistics
Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
Problem 19PFA
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For 5 year old children, the mean weight is 51.01 pounds with a standard deviation of 3.98 pounds. Convert the following observations into z-scores.
45.67
50
63.44
48
56.81
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The Z-score of a random variable X is defined as follows:
.
Here, µ and σ are the mean and standard deviation of X, respectively.
In this context, X is raw score.
For X=45.67, the Z-score is,
For X=50, the Z-score is,
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