Question 1121793
if you want 20% to the right of the critical z-score, you can use the following online calculator to give you the resulting z-score.


that's the online z-score calculator that i used.


<a href = "http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html" target = "_blank">http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html</a>


the z-score table i used can be found at <a href = "http://www.z-table.com/" target = "_blank">http://www.z-table.com/</a>


use of this calculator will tell you that the critical z-score is .841.


my straight line interpolation from the use of the z-score table gets me a z-score of .8417857143 which equals .842 rounded to 3 decimal places.


my TI-84-Plus calculator tells me the z-score is .8416212335 which equals .842 rounded to 3 decimal places.


what this points out is that you might get a different critical z-score depending on the method or calculator used to get that critical z-score.


either way, you will get a reasonably accurate result.


i went with critical z-scores of .841 and .842 and .84 to see what the difference would be.


the formula used to find the mean is derived from the z-score formula shown below.


z = (x - m) / s


z is the z-score
x is the raw score
m is the mean
s is the standard deviation.


solve for the mean in this formula as follows:


start with z = (x - m) / s
multiply both sides by s to get z * s =  x - m
add m to both sides of this formula and subtract z * s from both sides of this formula to get:
m = x - z * s


m = x - z * s is the formula to find the mean given the critical z-score and the critical raw score and the standard deviation.


the critical raw score used in this formula is 400 and the standard deviation used is 2.2.


when i used .841 as the critical z-score, this formula became:


m = 400 - .841 * 2.2 = 398.1498


when i used .842 as the critical z-score, this formula became:


m = 400 - .842 * 2.2 = 398.1476.


when i used .84 as the critical z-score, this formula became:


m = 400 - .84 * 2.2 = 398.152.


when z = .841, this is the result that i got:


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when z = .842, this is the result that i got:


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when z = .84, this is the result that i got:


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you can see that:


a z-score of .841 gave me a mean of 398.1498 with an area of 20.02% to the right of the critical raw score of 400.


a z-score of .842 gave me a mean 398.1476 with an area of 19.99% to the right of the critical raw score of 400.


a z-score of .84 gave me a mean of 398.152 withy an area of 20.05% to the right of the critical raw score of 400.


the z-score of .842 was the better z-score because it resulted in an area to the right of it as something slightly less than 20%.


however, any one of these z-scores would have given me an answer that was well within 1% of the required area of 20% to the right of the critical z-score.


the point is that you will get different answers depending on the method used to derive the critical z-score, but those answers will more then likely be well within a reasonably acceptable range of possible answers.


since they want your answer to 2 decimal places, it appears that all of these will give you the same answer.


that answer will be a mean of 398.15 rounded to 2 decimal places.