Assignment # 3

Please refer to “Video Discussion Module 4” for your guide in answering the
problem.

A hospital in a large city records the weight of every infant born at the hospital. The
distribution of weighs is normally shaped, has a mean of 2.9 kilograms and has a
standard deviation of 0.45.

Determine the following: (Show your solutions)

For each item the Point System are as follow:

1. Illustrative Figure of the Normal Distribution (1point)

2. Computation for z-score (2 points)
3. Values from the z-table (1 point)
4. Final answer (percentage value) (1 point)

a. The percentage of infants who weighed less than 2.1 kilograms

b. The percentile rank of a weight of 4.2 kilograms.
c. The percentage of infants who weighed between 1.8 and 4.0 kilograms