FORESTRY
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS AND ECONOMICS
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Question
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The mean temperature in Glens Falls for the month of February is 23 degrees with a standard deviation of 4.2 degrees. What is the z-score for a temperature of 17 degrees?
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1.43
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-1.43
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11.5
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -– A z-score of-2.00 indicates that the corresponding score is located below the mean by a distance of 2 standard deviations.
Detailed explanation-2: -For the standard normal distribution, 68% of the observations lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean; 95% lie within two standard deviation of the mean; and 99.9% lie within 3 standard deviations of the mean.
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