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lbcchick

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According to the NCHS the average height of females in the U.S. is 63.7 inches with a standard deviation of 2.75 inches. A sample of 100 former college women basketball players resulted in a sample mean of 65.8 inches. Is this sample statistic unusual enough to state that it does appear that this group of women is statistically taller than the general female population?
 
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Given a population that is normally distributed with a
   = 65 and  = 3, the probability of randomly selecting an object greater than 68 is:
  1.0.5000
  2.0.6827
  3.0.8413
  4.0.1587


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
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