Elementary Statistics (13th Edition)
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Author: Mario F. Triola
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6.1, Problem 18BSC
Standard Normal Distribution. In Exercises 17–36, assume that a randomly selected subject is given a bone density test. Those test scores are
18. Less than −1.96
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