The number of incoming students at two campuses of a midwestern university have historically been normally distributed. The main campus incoming class has a mean of 3,916 and a standard deviation of 375 , and the regional campus incoming class has a mean of 760 and a standard deviation of 110. If there were 4,304 incoming students on the main campus and 857 on the regional campus, which had the more successful year in student recruitment based on z scores? The z score for the main campus is ____________

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The number of incoming students at two campuses of a midwestern university have historically been normally distributed. The main campus incoming class has a mean of 3,916 and a standard deviation of 375

, and the regional campus incoming class has a mean of 760 and a standard deviation of 110. If there were 4,304 incoming students on the main campus and 857 on the regional campus, which had the more successful year in student recruitment based on z scores?

The z score for the main campus is ____________

Round the answers to at least two decimal places.

 
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