The z-score is calculated as:
$z = \frac{x - \mu}{\sigma}$
where $x$ is the value, $\mu$ is the mean, and $\sigma$ is the standard deviation.
a. For the scores of 40 and 47, we have:
$z_1 = \frac{40 - 50}{10} = -1$
$z_2 = \frac{47 - 50}{10} = -0.3$
We can
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