Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 4.166LM
Find a z-score, call it z0, such that
- a. P (z ≤ z0) = .5080
- b. P (z ≥ z0) = .5517
- c. P (z ≥ z0) = .1492
- d. P (z0 ≤ z ≤ .59) = .4773
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