1. What do you think, why it is important to have a normal distribution of data set?

Answer:
A normal distribution of the data set is vital since a particular data is expected to
be distributed.
2. How would you know that the data sets you have gathered are normally distributed?
Answer:
The data is typically distributed when it is curved and symmetrical in bell-shaped
shape.
3. Given a standardized normal distribution (with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation
of 1, as in Table E2), what is the probability that
a. Z is less than 1.57?
answer: 0.9418
b. Z is greater than 1.84?
answer: 0.0329
c. Z is between 1.57 and 1.84?
answer:
P(Z<1.84) = 0.9671
P(Z>1.57) = 0.9418
P(Z<1.84) – P(Z>1.57) = 0.9671
= 0.9671 – 0.9418
= 0.0253

d. Z is less than 1.57 or greater than 1.84?

answer:
 P(Z<1.57 and Z>1.84)
= 1 – P(1.57 ≤ Z ≤1.84)
= 1 – 0.0253
= 0.9747
4. Toby’s Trucking Company determined that the distance traveled per truck per year is
normally distributed, with a mean of 50 thousand miles and a standard deviation of 12
thousand miles. (Draw a normal distribution curve to justify your answer)

a. What proportion of trucks can be expected to travel between 34 and 50 thousand

miles in a year?
Answer:
Z = 34 – 50 = -1.3
12
Z = 50 – 50 = 0
20
P = 0.4082

b. What percentage of trucks can be expected to travel either below 30 or above 60

thousand miles in a year?
Answer:
Z = 30 – 50 = -1.3
12
Z = 60 – 50 = 0.83
12
Z = 0.83
Z = 0.2967
= 0.500 – 0.2967
P>60 = 0.2033
Z = -1.67
Z = 0.0475
 P<30 = 0.0475
P = 0.2033 + 0.0475
P = 0.2508

c. How many miles will be traveled by at least 80% of the trucks?

Answer:
X = 50 + (0.84) 12
X = 50 + 10.2
X = 60.08 thousand miles
d. What are your answers to (a) through (c) if the standard deviation is 10 thousand
miles?
Answer: