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Corey has 4929 songs in his computer's music library. The songs have a mean duration of 248.2 seconds with a standard deviation of 113.32 seconds. One of the songs is 399 seconds long. What is its z-score?

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Answer: In order to calculate a z-score value, we need to use the following equation:

Where, x is the observed value,

μ is the mean, and

σ is the standard deviation of the sample

In this example,

solving this, we obtain a Z-score of 0.9957

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