Question

The number of assists per match for the setter on your school's volleyball team has a mean of 58 and a standard deviation of 7. If in the last game he made 77 assists, how many standard deviations is that from the mean?

Answer 1

To get the number of standard deviation that 77 is from the mean, we get the z-score:
z-score is given by
z=(x-μ)/σ
where:
μ-mean
σ-standard deviation
thus the value of z from the information above is:
x=77
μ=58
σ=7
z=(77-58)/7=2.7143