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colton

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Suppose you took a standardized test and the scores had a bell-shaped distribution. You only need three pieces of information in order to find your percentile in the population of test scores. What are those three pieces of information?

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Which of the following describes measurements that have a normal distribution?
 a. The majority of the measurements are somewhere close to the average.
  b. The farther away you move from the average, the fewer individuals will have those more extreme values for their measurements.
  c. The mean of the measurements is located in the middle of the bell-shaped curve.
  d. All of the above.


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billybob123

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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

1) YOUR TEST SCORE; 2) THE MEAN OF THE POPULATION OF TEST SCORES; AND 3) THE STANDARD DEVIATION OF THE POPULATION OF TEST SCORES.

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colton

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Reply 2 on: Jul 24, 2018
Excellent

debra928

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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