Danna Perez

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NORMAL DISTRIBUTION WORKSHEET #1

EMPIRICAL RULE

1) On the math portion of the SAT, the scores are roughly normally distributed with mean 500
and standard deviation 100.

Since the mean is 500 and standard deviation is 100, we have:

(a) What percentage of SAT scores are above 400?

84%

(b) What percentage of SAT scores are above 500?

50%

(c) What percentage of SAT scores are below 700?

2.5%

(d) Between what two values do approximately 95% of SAT scores lie?

mayores que 300 y menores que 700

(e) What is the score of a person who scores higher than 84% of people who take the SAT?

x es mayor que 600

2) Given an approx. normal distribution with a mean of 175 and a standard deviation of 37,

(a) Draw a normal curve and label 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations on both sides on the mean.

34% 34%
13.5%
13.5% 68
2.35%
2.35% 95%
0.15%
99.7%
0.15%

64 101 138 175 212 249 286

(b) What percent of values are within the interval (138, 212)? 68%

(c) What percent of values are within the interval (101, 249)? 95%

(d) What percent of values are within the interval (64, 286)? 99.7%

(e) What percent of values outside the interval (138, 212)? 100-68=32%

(f) What percent of values are outside the interval (101, 249)? 100-95=5%

(g) What percent of values are outside the interval (64, 286)? 100-99.7=0.3%
3) Given an approximately normal distribution with mean of 159 and a standard deviation of 17,

(a) Draw a normal curve and label 1, 2, and 3 standard deviations on both sides on the mean.

34% 34%
13.5% 13.5%
2.35%
0.15%
2.35%
0.15%

142 159 176 193 210

108 125

(b) What percent of values are within the interval (142, 176)? 68%

(c) What percent of values are within the interval (125, 193)? 95%

(d) What interval contains 99.7% of all values? 108, 125, 142, 159,176, 193, 210

(e) What percent of values are above 176? 16%

(f) What percent of values are below 125? 2.5%

4) The incubation time for Rhode Island Red chicks is normally distributed with mean 21
days and standard deviation approximately 1 day. If 1000 eggs are being incubated,
how many chicks do we expect will hatch?

34% 34%
13.5%
13.5%

2,35%
2.35% 0.15%
0.15%

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

(a) In 19 to 23 days? 1000x95/100= 950 chicks (e) In 22 days or more? 1000x16/100= 160 chicks

(b) In 21 days or fewer? 1000x50/100= 500 chicks (f) In 18 to 21 days? 1000x50/100= 500 chicks

(c) In 19 days or fewer 1000x2.5/100= 25 chicks (g) In 19 to 24 days? 1000x97.35/100= 973 chicks

(d) In 18 to 24 days? 1000x99.7/100= 997 chicks (h) In 18 days or more? 1000x99.7/100= 997chicks