Homework Help: statistics

Posted by nicole on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 12:56am.

Assume that a set of test scores is normally distributed with a mean of 80 and a standard deviation of 25. Use the 68-95-99.7 rule to find the following quantities.

The percentage of scores less than 80 is?

statistics - drwls, Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 2:17am
Since 80 is the mean, the fraction le4ss than that is 50%. You don't need to invoke a 68-95-99.7 rule to figure that out. You also don't need to know the standard deviation.

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