MENSURATION. Mensuration is the mathematical name for calculating the areas, volumes, length of sides, and other geometric parts of standard geometric shapes such as circles, spheres, polygons, prisms, cylinders, cones, etc., through the use of mathematical equations or formulas.
The z-score is the number of a data value that represents how many standard deviation is it from the mean. It is calculated from the ratio of the difference of a data value and the population mean and the standard deviation of the data set. Having a z-score of zero would mean that the value is the same as the mean. A z-score that is greater than 1 would mean that the value is x standard deviation greater than the mean. If for a certain data, a z-score of positive 2.5 is calculated, then it means that the data is 2.5 standard deviations away and above from the mean of the whole set. In a normal