Given a Mean of -7

question 1

Multiple Choice

Given a mean of -7.8 and a standard deviation of 16 from a normally distributed sample,what is the probability of an observation being below 12.0?

• A) 0.51
• B) 0.61
• C) 0.71
• D) 0.81

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