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by vinaynawani » Sun May 09, 2010 10:46 pm
A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean M. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation D of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than M+D?

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by shashank.ism » Sun May 09, 2010 10:48 pm
vinaynawani wrote:A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean M. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation D of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than M+D?

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isn't this question out of scope of GMAT... some instructor should intervene and suggest.
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by vinaynawani » Sun May 09, 2010 10:50 pm
ohh...is it ???

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by shashank.ism » Sun May 09, 2010 10:58 pm
vinaynawani wrote:ohh...is it ???

i dont know.
Do let me know if thats d case...
I think so but we will have to consult instructors.. wait for the reply of instructor ...btw what is the OS of the question...
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The O.S. is D.
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by gmatmachoman » Sun May 09, 2010 11:25 pm
shashank.ism wrote:
vinaynawani wrote:A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean M. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation D of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than M+D?

A. 16%
B.32%
C. 48%
D. 84%
E. 92%


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isn't this question out of scope of GMAT... some instructor should intervene and suggest.
shashank is true to certain extent. This one revolves ard a statistical rule called 34:14:2 concept( google it for more)

Yeah Answer will be 84%.

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by vinaynawani » Sun May 09, 2010 11:29 pm
gmatmachoman wrote:
shashank.ism wrote:
vinaynawani wrote:A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean M. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation D of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than M+D?

A. 16%
B.32%
C. 48%
D. 84%
E. 92%


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isn't this question out of scope of GMAT... some instructor should intervene and suggest.
shashank is true to certain extent. This one revolves ard a statistical rule called 34:14:2 concept( google it for more)

Yeah Answer will be 84%.

These are typical GRE based. Not GMAT ones....
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by harshavardhanc » Sun May 09, 2010 11:45 pm
vinaynawani wrote:
gmatmachoman wrote:
shashank.ism wrote:
vinaynawani wrote:A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean M. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation D of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than M+D?

A. 16%
B.32%
C. 48%
D. 84%
E. 92%


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isn't this question out of scope of GMAT... some instructor should intervene and suggest.
shashank is true to certain extent. This one revolves ard a statistical rule called 34:14:2 concept( google it for more)

Yeah Answer will be 84%.

These are typical GRE based. Not GMAT ones....
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thanx.
anyway, it's good to know the concepts.

The question says that

--------------------+--------------+------------+--------------------
____16% ___M-D__34%___M__34%__M+D___16%


given : 68% lies between M-D and M+D. So, values beyond (M+D) and (M-D) will constitute 32%, 16-16 distributed on both the sides as shown above.

So, there are 16+34+34 % values less than M+D.

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