The Normal Distribution Has a Greater Percentage of Its Area

question 53

Multiple Choice

The normal distribution has a greater percentage of its area close to the mean and much less in the tails.
-Find the indicated IQ score. The graph depicts IQ scores of adults, and those scores are normally distributed with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15 (as on the Wechsler test) . The shaded area under the curve is 0.10.

• A) 119.2
• B) 80.8
• C) 100.5
• D) 108.1

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