The number of semester hours of college credit earned by the candidates had a mean of 141.31

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The number of semester hours of college credit earned by the candidates had a mean of 141.31 hours and a standard deviation of 17.77 hours.
a. Find the z-score for a first-time candidate for the CPA exam who earned 160 semester hours of college credit. Is this observation considered an outlier?
b. Give a value of the number of semester hours that would, in fact, be considered an outlier in this data set.
For Information: Refer to the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (Spring 2002) study of 100,000 first-time candidates for the CPA exam, Exercise 2.51.
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Statistics For Business And Economics

ISBN: 9780321826237

12th Edition

Authors: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry T Sincich

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