SOLUTION: A set of data has a mean of 0.5 and a standard deviation of 0.01. A data point of the set has a z-score of 2.5. What does a z-score of 2.5 mean?

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Question 1023049: A set of data has a mean of 0.5 and a standard deviation of 0.01. A data point of the set has a z-score of 2.5. What does a z-score of 2.5 mean?
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It means the original sample score from which it came is at a distance of 2.5 standard deviations from the original mean of 0.5. (The original x-score is 0.525 by a direct application of the formula Z+=+%28X-mu%29%2Fsigma.)