In fact, statisticians have worked out the area under the curve between the mean and every point along the horizontai axis of the normal curve. This information is summarized in a table called the ‘area under the standard normal curve’, which appears in the back of every statistics textbook (including this one). In fact, because we are going to work with it frequently throughout this chapter, and to familiarize ourselves with it, it is reproduced below (table 6.3)