College of Information Technology and Computer Science

CC12: Statistical design and analysis

Laboratory Exercise No. 03

Constructing A Normal Curve

In this activity, you will be constructing a normal curve in Microsoft Excel 365 given
a set of data.

A video tutorial that illustrates how to construct a normal curve in Excel,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IicA_BCFG9I

In this activity, you will be using the AVERAGE and STDEV.S functions to get the
mean and the standard deviation, respectively, of the given data. NORM.DIST(z, mean,
standard deviation, true/false) function is used to get the probability of a certain z score. In this
case, we will be using the “false” argument since we will get the corresponding probability for
the respective z score.

Activity

1. Draw a normal curve given the following data.

52.74 46.92 50.65 45.38 48.22 50.35 48.43 49.56 49.3 46.91
51.86 49.03 46.24 51.05 48.85 50.4 48.88 46.05 51.17 49.4
50.76 47.43 48.99 49.9 45.9 50.39 49.66 48.37 49.71 49.95
46.66 51.3 51.42 49.97 49.3 46.14 44.1 52.93 48.75 51.03
48.94 47.38 45.09 50.3 49.79 52.05 51.2 47.24 49.15 50.17

2. Draw a normal curve with mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15 by following the
steps:
a. We want to create at normal curve that shows ± 4 deviations from the mean.
Identify the minimum value: mean – 4*standard deviation
Identify the maximum value: mean + 4*standard deviation
Create a column (x values) in excel that starts with the minimum value, ends with
the maximum value, and with an increment of 2.
b. Make a column for the respective z score of the x values created in (a).
c. Construct a normal curve using the two columns above.

3. Construct a normal curve of the annual salaries for a large company approximately
normally distributed with a mean of $50,000 and a standard deviation of $20,000.
(Show ± 4 deviations from the mean. Choose your own increment.)

Roma Joy D. Fronda

 College of Information Technology and Computer Science

Laboratory Exercise Score Sheet

Criteria Score

1. Computation of Mean 5

Computation of Standard Deviation 5

z scores column 5

Properly labeled normal curve 10

Screen Capture of Excel sheet 5

2. Correctly created x column 10

z scores column 5

Properly labeled normal curve 10

Screen capture of Excel sheet 5

3. Correctly created x column 10

z scores column 5

Properly labeled normal curve 10

Screen capture of Excel sheet 5

Accomplished activity within given time frame 10

Roma Joy D. Fronda