The United Nations publication Energy Statistics Yearbook lists consumption of energy (unstats.

un.org/unsd/energy). For the 27 nations that made up the European Union (EU) in 2011, the energy values

(in kilowatt-hours per capita) had a mean of 5963 and a standard deviation of 2292.

(a) France had a value of 7946. How many standard deviations from the mean was it?

(b) The value for the United States was 13,930.Relative to the distribution for the European Union, find its z-score.

Interpret.

(c) If the distribution of EU energy values were bell shaped, would a value of 13,930 be unusually high?Why?