Understandable Statistics: Concepts and Methods
12th Edition
ISBN: 9781337119917
Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6.1, Problem 5P
Basic Computation:
- (a) to the left of μ?
- (b) between μ − σ and μ + σ?
- (c) between μ − 3σ and μ + 3σ?
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