Choose the One Alternative That Best Completes the Statement or Answers

question 18

Multiple Choice

Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.Use a table of areas for the standard normal curve to find the required z-score.
-Find the z-score for which the area under the standard normal curve to its left is 0.40

• A)0.25
• B)-0.25
• C)0.57
• D)-0.57

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