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AP®︎/College Statistics
Z-scores-problem
Nutritionists measured the sugar content (in grams) for 32 drinks at Jake's Java coffee shop. The drinks had a mean of 18, start text, g, end text and a standard deviation of 5, start text, g, end text, and the distribution was roughly symmetric.
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- Your score was the cutoff for the top 12%. This score is known as Z= 2.0.(13 votes)
- For the challenge problem, why is the answer not 24.5? I got to the x - 20 = -4.5 and solved for x. Isn't x the amount of sugar in the drink we are observing?(3 votes)
- so from x - 20 = -4.5 => x + 20 - 20 = -4.5 + 20 => x = 20 - 4.5 => x = 15.5
I think your problem was that you added 4.5 to 20 instead of subtracting 4.5. (4.5 is Negative)(11 votes)
- challenge problem,
since z-score=(x-mean)/std dev then
(std dev*z-score)=x-mean) equals
(std dev*z-score)+mean=x
(6*-.75)+20=15.5
-4.5+20=15.5(5 votes) - I was confused what the last question was asking. Can someone explain it to me?(3 votes)
- -.75=x-20/6 You reverse the order of finding z(4 votes)
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- if the distribution is normal (bell shaped) then the mean would be at 50% and 1 sd (approx 34%) above the mean. This would put you at the 84th percentile.
if its a normal distribution then n (size of class ie population) is not relevant and does not have any impact on the z-score.(3 votes)
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- Thank You very much, this was helpfull(3 votes)
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- Good problems! Thank you!(2 votes)