Do Now: The life spans of a certain tread of tire are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 31,066

miles and a standard deviation of 1644 miles.

(a) Find P(30,000 < X < 32,000) (b) Find P(X > 35,000)

Let's Revisit: The scores for a college entrance exam are normally distributed with a mean of 1511 and a standard
deviation of 326. How high must a student score to place in the top 5% of all students taking the exam?

If a student scores in the top 5% of all students taking the exam, then they scored higher than _______% of all
students.

This student lies in the 95th ______________________________________!

Statisticians often talk about the _______________________ of a value, relative to other values in a set of observations.
The most common measures of position are ________________________, ______________________, and _________________________.

Percentiles are the values that divide an ordered set of data into _______ equal parts.

A data value having a percentile rank n would have a greater value than n percent of all the data values in the set.

**Note: There is no _____ percentile, nor _____ percentile.**

If the data are normally distributed, you can use a _____________________ to determine the percentile rank of a
particular data value.

Example 1: The cholesterol levels for adult males of a specific racial group are normally distributed with a mean
of 158.3 and a standard deviation of 6.6. Suppose an adult male's cholesterol level is 145. In which percentile does
his cholesterol level lie?

**Think: What is the lower limit from which we should shade?

Example 2: The life spans of a specific insect are normally distributed with a mean of 12.3 days and a standard
deviation of 3.9 days.
(a) In which percentile does a life span of 10 days lie?

(b) Suppose one insect's life span lies in the 82nd percentile. Between which two values must its life span lie?

Example 3: Masses of bags of chips have a mean of 30 grams, with a standard deviation of 4 grams, distributed
normally.

(a) What percentage of bags has a mass above 32.5 grams?

(b) Any bag that is below the 16th percentile is rejected. What mass would get a bag thrown out?

(c) What is the range of masses of a bag of chips that is in the 58th percentile?