A successful basketball player has a height of 6 feet 10 inches, or 208 cm. Based on statistics from a data set, his height converts to the z score of 4.81. How many standard deviations is his height above the mean?

4.81 standard deviations above the mean.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

Based on statistics from a data set, his height converts to the z score of 4.81. How many standard deviations is his height above the mean?

So his height is 4.81 standard deviations above the mean.