Mens heights A report of the National Center for Health Statistics says that the height

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Mens heights A report of the National Center for Health Statistics says that the height of a 20-year-old man chosen at random is a random variable H with mean 5.8 feet and standard deviation 0.24 feet. Find the mean and standard deviation of the height J of a randomly selected 20-year-old man in inches. There are 12 inches in a foot.

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QUESTION:

Mens heights A report of the National Center for Health Statistics says that the height of a 20-year-old man chosen at random is a random variable H with mean 5.8 feet and standard deviation 0.24 feet. Find the mean and standard deviation of the height J of a randomly selected 20-year-old man in inches. There are 12 inches in a foot.

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Given:

The random variable H represents the height of a 20-year-old man.

The mean height of man is feet.

The standard deviation of height is feet.

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