Praxis: The hand spans of ninth-grade students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High are approximately normally distributed, with a mean of 7 inches and a standard deviation of 1 inch. Of the following groups of measurements of hand span, which is expected to contain the largest number of ninth-graders?
a. less than 6 inches
b. greater than 7 inches
c. between 6 and 8 inches
d. between 5 and 7 inches
ANSWER:
c
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