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Complete the following statements.

The area under the curve associated with a z score of 3 is 0.

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It's a mistake to say that the area under the standard normal curve associated with a z score of 3 is 0. That area is actually slightly less than 1.

Using a old but good calculator with statistical functions:

normalcdf(-100, +3) = 0.999

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