Use the Following Information for Following Questions

question 28

Multiple Choice

Use the following information for following questions .
The distribution of the number of hours of sleep people get per night is unimodal
and symmetric with a mean of 6 hours and a standard deviation of 1.5 hours.
-If James had a z-score of 1.2, explain what this value means in terms of the number of hours of sleep he gets.

• A)James sleeps 1.2 hours less than the average person.
• B)James sleeps 1.2 hours more than the average person.
• C)The number of hours James sleeps is 1.2 standard deviations below the mean.
• D)The number of hours James sleeps is 1.2 standard deviations above the mean.

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