Question: Assume that right hand span measurements for college women are approximately normally distributed, with a mean of 20 cm and a standard deviation of 1.8 cm, and that for men, they are normally distributed, with a mean 22.5 cm and a standard deviation of 1.5 cm. Measure your own right hand span.
a. Assuming that you fit with the population of college students of your sex, what is the z-score corresponding to your right hand span measurement? (Be sure to give your sex and right hand span measurement with your answer.)
b. What proportion of students of your sex have right hand span measurements smaller than yours?