Mind on Statistics
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ISBN: 9781285463186
Author: Jessica M. Utts, Robert F. Heckard
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.103E
Suppose verbal SAT scores for students admitted to a university are bell-shaped with a mean of 540 and a standard deviation of 50.
- Draw a picture of the distribution of these verbal SAT scores, indicating the cutoff points for the middle 68%, 95%, and 99.7% of the scores.
- What is the variance of verbal SAT scores for students admitted to the university?
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