assuming that you wished to have the highest possible score on an exam relative to ht e other scores, would you rather have a score of 70 on a test with a mean of 60 and a standard deviations of 5.2 or a score of 81 on a test with a mean of 79 and a standard deviation of 7.1?

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Find the z-score of each.
The one with the higher z-score is a "better score"