MDM4U Normal Distribution Worksheet  

 
 
1) If X~N(15, 2​2​), then which interval will 68% of the data fall between? [13-17] 
 
2) Annual rainfall in a coastal town is normally distributed with a mean of 60 cm and a st. dev. of 7 cm. For 
what percent of years will the rainfall be between 53 and 60 cm? [34%] 
 
3) The masses of 500 boxes of sugar from a factory are normally distributed with a mean of 150g and a 
st.dev. of3g. How many of these boxes would you expect to have a mass greater than 150g? [250] 
 
4) Diameters of ball bearings have a mean of 24.5 mm and a st.dev. of 0.15 mm. In what interval will the 
diameters of acceptable ball bearings fall if the manufacturer rejects the smallest 2.5% and the largest 
0.15%? (Assume a normal distribution) [24.20 to 24.95] 
 
5) Usain Bolt’s 100m race times are distributed such that X~N(9.8, 0.2​2​). In what percent of his sprints will 
his time be less than 10.0 seconds? [84%] 
 
6) An internet site has an average of 2500 hits per day, and its daily hits is approximately normally 
distributed with a st. dev. of 220 hits. For how many of the next 50 days would you expect the site to 
receive fewer than 2280 hits? [8] 
 
7) A machine fills bottles with cola. The mean fill is 341 mL with a standard deviation of 2 mL. The 
manufacturer only decides to accept the 99.7% of bottles whose fill is closest to the mean. What interval 
does this represent? [335-347 mL (3 standard deviations)] 
 
8) The number of candies in a bag is normally distributed with a mean of 200 and a st. dev. of 3. In what 
percentile is a bag with 205 candies? [95th] 
 
9) The masses of bolts made in a plant are normally distributed. Bolts will be rejected if they are more than 
2.15 standard deviations above the mean or 2.10 standard deviations below the mean. What percent of 
bolts are rejected? [3.37%] 
 
10) The diameters of inflated balloons in mm, are normally distributed with a mean of 200 and a st. dev. of 12. 
Balloons will burst if their diameter exceeds 230. What percent of balloons will burst? [0.62%] 
 
11) The volumes of apple juice (in mL) in cartons is distributed such that X~N(μ, 120​2​). Determine the mean, to 
the nearest whole number, if 34% of these cartons contain less than 961 mL of juice. [1010 mL] 
 
12) What percent of baseball games last between 2.5 and 3.5 hours if the game lengths follow a normal 
distribution with a mean of 2.7 hours and a standard deviation of 0.5 hours? [60.06%] 
 
13) Mr. Toms was using a z-score table and noticed that P(Z < -1.6) + P(Z < 1.6) = 1. He saw that this pattern 
was true for other z-scores as well. Explain why this pattern occurs. 
 
14) Find the mean and standard deviation for normally distributed data, if 1.1% of the data are less than 7.84 
and 50.8% of the data are less than 17.08. [19, 4] 
 
15) The masses of Burger King’s new half-pounder burgers are normally distributed. Of these burgers, 33% 
have masses greater than 253.32 g and 40.9% of them have masses less than 248.16 g. Find the mean and 
standard deviation of the half-pounder burger masses. [250g, 8g]