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Determine the level of the confidence given the confidence coefficient z(α/2) for the following situation: z(α/2) = 1.96

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  1. Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability for Z = ±1.96. Hint: It is the area between Z and the mean.

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