For the Following Questions Assume That the Heights of American

question 21

Multiple Choice

For the following Questions assume that the heights of American women ages 18 to 24 are normally distributed, with mean 64.5 inches and standard deviation 2.5 inches.
-Amy's 18-year-old sister Mo is 64 inches tall. Where is she located in the height distribution of women ages 18 to 24?

• A) Below the first quartile
• B) Between the first quartile and the mean
• C) Between the mean and the third quartile
• D) Above the third quartile

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the average.

Deviations

Differences between observed values and the average of those values in a dataset.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers together and dividing by the quantity of numbers.