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You have a normal distribution with a mean of 58 and a standard deviation of 12. Aparticular value of x is 50. What is the z-score of 50 given that normal distributions?Users

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To do this you can use the following formula that is used to standardize a random variable which has a normal distribution


Z=(x-\mu)/(\sigma)

Where


\begin{gathered} \mu\text{ represents the mean and, } \\ \sigma\text{ represents the standard desviation} \end{gathered}

So, replacing you have


Z=(x-\mu)/(\sigma)=(50-58)/(12)=-(8)/(12)

Simplifying you have


Z=-(8)/(12)=-(2)/(3)=-0.67

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