Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 87

z Scores: Fawns Fawns between 1 and 5 months old in Mesa Verde National Park have a body weight that is approximately normally distributed with mean = 27.2 kilograms and standard deviation = 4.3 kilograms (based on information form The Mule Deer of Mesa Verde National Park , by G. W. Mierau and J. L. Schmidt, Mesa Verde Museum Association). Let x be the weight of a fawn in kilograms. Convert each of the following x intervals to z intervals.
(a) x 30
(b) 19 x
(c) 32 x 35
Convert each of the following z intervals to x intervals.
(d) 2.17 z
(e) z 1.28
(f) 1.99 z 1.44
(g) Interpretation If a fawn weighs 14 kilograms, would you say it is an unusually small animal Explain using z values and Figure 7-12.
(h) Interpretation If a fawn is unusually large would you say that the z value for the weight of the fawn will be close to 0, 2, or 3 Explain.