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Statistics 10 – z-scores 2

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You’ll learn

  • Find upper-tail probabilities with the complement rule P(z ≥ a) = 1 − P(z ≤ a)
  • Draw the mirror-diagram pair to check which area the tables actually give
  • Sanity-check answers: the upper-tail probability shrinks fast as z grows

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