A single observation can be expressed in a number of ways that all refer to that same observation and the exact same place within the normal curve.These expressions are:
A) formal, informal, and standard.
B) a z score, percentile, and standard score.
C) standard, transformed, and normalized.
D) a raw score, z score, and percentile.

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A raw score is the initial observation value, a z score is the standardized value indicating how many standard deviations the observation is from the mean, and a percentile is the percentage of observation values that fall below a particular score. These are all different expressions of the same observation within the normal distribution. The other options do not accurately represent the common expressions used for a single observation within the normal curve.

A Single Observation Can Be Expressed in a Number of Ways