Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Probabilities are determined by dividing the number of outcomes in an event by the number of all possible outcomes that can occur.
2. Relative frequency refers to the proportion of times that we observe an event occurring.
3. Drawing a card from a deck, returning it, and then determining the probability of drawing the same card is an example of probability without replacement.
4. As we move from 0.1 standard deviations up to 4 standard deviations we are steadily decreasing the percentage of cases that fall between the mean and the number of standard deviations from the mean.
5. A z-score of –1.5 is associated with a higher probability of an event occurring than a z-score of 1.2.


1. True
2. False
3. False
4. False
5. False

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