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Three Times the Mean

Difficulty: Medium · Topics: Probability, Statistics, z-Scores

In an exam with standard deviation 3, a student scored 4 points less than 3 times the class mean. The student's z-score is 20. What is the class mean?

(The z-score of a value x is z=(x-bar x)/(s), where bar x is the mean and s the standard deviation.)