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Broaci GRADE 11/12 | STATISTICS & PROBABILITY UNIT3 The Normal Curve Throughout the course of human civilization, mankind has pursued improvement of his current state of living. A lot of inventions have been made to make life more convenient. Necessity, after all, is the mother of all inventions. Thus, to determine how to improve our current state of living, researches about other people's state of living are being made to discover what Is there to Improve. The government uses research to make important decisions on how to improve the state. For instance, the education sector uses standardized tests to determine the performance of students. Using the mean and standard deviation, they can describe how well the students in the country perform and use this as basis in evaluating the current curriculum. Moreover, educational Institutions use this information to determine how well a particular student performs in comparison to the performance of the average student in the country. The private sector also uses research to improve . days. What is the probability that a minor wound of a randomly chosen white mouse would last for more than 8 days? Solution: Step 1; Make a plan to solve the problem. We would like to know the probability that when a randomly chosen white mouse receives a minor wound, it will last for more than 8 days. We should locate the score 8 days first in the normal curve and determine the area of the region to the right of the score. Step 2; Locate the score in the normal curve. Since we know that a minor wound lasts on an average of 667 days with standard deviation of 1.33 days, let’s identify how many standard devi above the mean 8 days i 6.67 +1.33 8 ute to Therefore, it lies one standard deviation above the mean. Step 3: Determine the area of the normal curve to the right of the obtained score. Let's start by determining the area of the region to the right of the mean. 667 8 Remember that the normal curve is symmetric and the area to the right of the mean is 0.5. Next, determine the area of the score between the mean and one standard deviation above the mean. 6678 Recall that the area of the region within one standard deviation from the mean is 0.6826. Since the normal curve is symmetric, we can divide that area by 2 to get the area between the mean and the score one standard deviation above the mean. 0.6826 + 2= 0.3413 Step 4: Example 3: Solution: Step 1: Step 2: Lastly, obtain the area of the region to the right of the score one standard deviation above the mean. We can do this by subtracting the two previous areas. If we subtract the two areas, we will be left with the area to the right of the score one standard deviation above the mean. 0s — 0.3413 = 0.1587 667 Therefore, the area is 0.1587. Convert the area into a percentage. Multiply the area 0.1587 by 100% to determine the probability that a minor wound of a randomly selected white mouse would last for more than 8 days. 0.1587 100% = 15.87% Therefore, the probability that a minor wound of a randomly selected white mouse would last for more than 8 days is 15.87%. ‘An achievernent test is given to 1560 Grade 11 = students of a certain school. The students who will score more than three standard deviations above the mean will receive the Academic Excellence Award. How many students are expected to receive the award? Make a plan to solve the problem. We would like to know how many Grade 11 students would score three standard deviations above the mean. We can do this by getting the percentage of students who can score more than three standard deviations above the mean and multiply that percentage to the population of Grade 11 students. Determine the area of the region more than three standard deviations above the mean. We will solve for the area of the region shown within the bracket below. Remember that the area of the region within three standard deviations from the mean Is 0.9974. The area of the region more than three standard deviations above and below the mean is obtained by subtracting 0.9974 from the total area, which is 1. — 0.9974 = 0.0026. Thus, the area shown in the brackets above is 0.0026. We only need the area of the region more than three standard deviations) above the mean. Since the normal curve is symmetric, we can divide the obtained area by 2. 0.0026 + 2 0013 ‘Thus, the area is 0.0013. Step 3: Step 4: Convert the area into a percentage. Multiply the area 0.0013 by 100% in order to convert it into a percentage. 0.0013 - 100% 0.13% Therefore, the number of students who are expected to score more than, three standard deviations above the mean represents 0.13% of the population. Multiply the percentage to the population of students. Since 0.13% represents the students who are expected to score more than three standard deviations above the mean, we will multiply that percentage to the population of 1.560 students to determine the number of Grade 11 students who will receive the award. 0.0013- 1560 028 This means that there are approximately 2 students who are expected to receive the Academic Excellence Award. LIM rererences Ocampo, Jose M. and Wilmer G, Marquez. Conceptual Math & Beyond (Statistics and Probability). Quezon City: Brilliant Creations Publishing, Inc., 2016 Open Learning Initiative. “Concepts In Statistics ~ Normal Random Variables.” Accessed September 9, 2018. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-concepts- statistics/chapter/introduction-to-normal-random-variables-1-of-6/ Pierce, Rod. “Normal Distribution.” Accessed September 13, 2018. https://www.mathsisfun.com/data/standard-normal-distribution.html Statistics Lectures. “Normal Curve and Empirical Rule.” Accessed September 10, 2018. http://www.statisticslectures.com/topics/normalcurve/

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