Normal Distribution
Q1. According to the 2007 American Time Use Survey by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics, employed adults living in households with no children
younger than 18 years engaged in leisure activities for 4.4 hours a day
on average. Assume that currently such times are (approximately)
normally distributed with a mean of 4.4 hours per day and a standard
deviation of 1.08 hours per day. Find the probability that the amount of
time spent on leisure activities per day for a randomly chosen
individual from the population of interest (employed adults living in
households with no children younger than 18 years) is:
A. Between 3 and 5 hours per day
B. Less than 2 hours per day
C. Between 2.2 and 5.6 hours per day
And Calculate.
D. What is the highest value of lowest 20%?
E. What is the lowest value of highest 25%?
Q2. The Bank of Connecticut issues Visa and MasterCard credit cards: It is
estimated that the balances on all Visa credit cards issued by the Bank
of Connecticut have a mean of $845 and a standard deviation of $270.
Assume that the balances on all these Visa cards follow a normal
distribution.
A. What is the probability that a randomly selected Visa card issued
by this bank has a balance between $1000 and $1440?
B. What percentage of the Visa cards issued by this bank has a
balance of $730 or more?
C. What is the percentage of the Visa cards issued by this bank has a
balance more than $800?
D. What is the highest value of balance of lowest 10% of the card
users?
E. What are the highest and lowest values of balances for the middle
20% of the users?
Q3. The number of bottles of shampoo sold monthly by a certain discount
drugstore is a normal random variable with mean 212 and standard
deviation 40. Find the probability that next month’s shampoo sales
will be:
A. Greater than 200
B. Less than 250
C. Greater than 200 but less than 250
D. What will be the highest number of shampoos sold for the next
month if is in the lowest 25% sales?
E. What will be the highest number of shampoos sold for the next
month if is in the lowest 25% sales?
Q4. The amount of money spent every month on mobile is an important
variable for the marketers. The data was collected and it was found
that the population average is 2700 Rs. The population standard
deviation was found to be 500 Rs. Compute the following
A. Probability of randomly selected person to be spending more
than 1750 Rs.
B. Probability of randomly selected person to be spending less
than 3980 Rs.
C. Between 1600 Rs and 3800 Rs.
D. What is the minimum amount spent by the highest 25%
customers?
E. What is the maximum amount spent by the lowest 20%
customers?
F. What is the maximum and minimum amount spent by the
middle 20% customers?
Q5. Stress is a big killer for the drivers. Safe Drive is an organization which
has embarked upon a study to measure the stress level of those
drivers having accidents regularly. (Regularly means at least one
accident in a month). Mean amount of stress was found to be 84
(Maximum of the scale is 120) with a standard deviation of 8, find the
probability that a randomly selected accident prone driver will be
having stress level:
A. Less than 69
B. More than 93
C. Between 75 and 98
D. What is the minimum amount of the stress for the highest 20%
stressed?
E. What is the maximum amount of the stress for the lowest 15%
stressed?
F. What is the maximum and minimum stress level for the middle
60% stressed?
Q6. Amount of money spent on smoking is on rise at the campus. The
mean amount spent by the students per week is 220 Rs with a
standard deviation of 40 Rs. If a student is randomly picked what is the
probability that he will be spending:
A. More than 295 Rs
B. Between 220 and 285 Rs
C. Less than 303 Rs.
D. What is the minimum amount spent by highest 10% smokers?
E. What is the maximum amount spent by the lowest 15%
smokers?
F. What is the maximum and minimum amount spent by the
middle 40% smokers?