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OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

What is the normal curve area, to the nearest whole percent, between z= -0.38 and z= +1.5? A. 58% B. 79% C. 29% D. -29% E. 22%

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

Please, do you refer to the Gaussian distribution?

OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

normal distribution yea

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

have you got the table of the "erf" function?

OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

no, i can look it up tho

OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

ok i found one

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

from the table of the "erf" function, I read that your answer is: 43.32% + 14.8% = 58.12% Please check that result

OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

hmm i didn't get that i looked up 1.5 and it said .03389

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

please you have to pick the value of the area between z=0 and z= 1.5 times the satndard deviation sigma

OpenStudy (hockeychick23):

oh now i got it, it was a bad table

OpenStudy (michele_laino):

here is the table:

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