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Table V NUMBER OF NUMBER OF

STANDARD AREA TO THE STANDARD AREA TO THE
Area of normal DEVIATIONS LEFT OR RIGHT DEVIATIONS LEFT OR RIGHT
distribution that is Z FROM MEAN (Z) (one tail) FROM MEAN (Z) (one tail)
standard deviations
to the left or right of 0.00 0.5000 1.55 0.0606
the mean 0.05 0.4801 1.60 0.0548
0.10 0.4602 1.65 0.0495
0.15 0.4404 1.70 0.0446
0.20 0.4207 1.75 0.0401
0.25 0.4013 1.80 0.0359
0.30 0.3821 1.85 0.0322
0.35 0.3632 1.90 0.0287
0.40 0.3446 1.95 0.0256
0.45 0.3264 2.00 0.0228
0.50 0.3085 2.05 0.0202
0.55 0.2912 2.10 0.0179
0.60 0.2743 2.15 0.0158
0.65 0.2578 2.20 0.0139
0.70 0.2420 2.25 0.0122
0.75 0.2264 2.30 0.0107
0.80 0.2119 2.35 0.0094
0.85 0.1977 2.40 0.0082
0.90 0.1841 2.45 0.0071
0.95 0.1711 2.50 0.0062
1.00 0.1577 2.55 0.0054
1.05 0.1469 2.60 0.0047
1.10 0.1357 2.65 0.0040
1.15 0.1251 2.70 0.0035
1.20 0.1151 2.75 0.0030
1.25 0.1056 2.80 0.0026
1.30 0.0968 2.85 0.0022
1.35 0.0885 2.90 0.0019
1.40 0.0808 2.95 0.0016
1.45 0.0735 3.00 0.0013
1.50 0.0668

Table V shows the area of the normal

distribution that is Z standard deviations
to the left or to the right of the mean.
The test is “one tailed” in the sense that
we are concerned with one side of the
distribution or the other. If we wished to
know the area of the curve, or probabil-
ity, that was 1.5 standard deviations or
more from the arithmetic mean on the
right, it would be depicted by the colored
area in the figure to the left. In Table V we see that this corresponds to 6.68 percent of the total area of
the normal distribution. Thus we could say that there was a 6.68 percent probability that the actual out-
come would exceed the mean by 1.5 standard deviations.

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