z score in statistics

Question

Find the Z score that most closely corresponds to an area of 0.379 on the left.

Answer 1

You look for the probabilities closest to 0.379 in the standard normal probabilities table. 0.3821 corresponds to a z-score of -0.3, while 0.3783 corresponds to a z-score of -0.31. Since 0.3783 is closer to 0.379, the z-score of -0.31 most closely corresponds.