Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 6, Problem 24P
Suppose X ~N(9, 3). What is the z-score of x = 9?
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