A student wished to use a table of areas for the standard normal curve to find the z-score having an area to its right of 0.52. The student started by looking for the closest area to 0.52 in the body of the table and reading off the corresponding z-score which was 0.05. She then subtracted this z-score from 1 to get 0.95. Was her reasoning correct? If not, where did she go wrong and how would you have solved the problem?

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The Answer of A student wished to use a table of areas for the standard normal curve to find the z-score having an area to its right of 0.52. The student started by looking for the closest area to 0.52 in the body of the table and reading off the corresponding z-score which was 0.05. She then subtracted this z-score from 1 to get 0.95. Was her reasoning correct? If not, where did she go wrong and how would you have solved the problem?

A Student Wished to Use a Table of Areas for the Standard