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What is a continuous
random variable?
Cite an example.
 Picture Analysis

BELL – SHAPED CURVE

SESSION OBJECTIVES

Illustrates a normal random

variable and its characteristics.
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Approximately
Close to, nearly

Hypothesis
Wise assumption

RegressionDecline, downturn

Assumption Guess, belief

Symmetry Balance, evenness

Emperical
Factual, actual
GROUP ACTIVITY
Consider the following data pertaining to
hospital weights (in pounds) of all the 40
babies that were born in the maternity
ward of a certain hospital.

4.94 4.69 4.30 6.80 7.29 7.19 9.47 6.61 5.84 8.20
3.45 2.93 6.38 5.85 4.38 6.76 8.80 8.47 5.80 6.40
8.6 3.99 5.68 5.85 2.24 5.32 5.90 8.45 5.63 5.37
5.26 7.35 6.11 6.85 7.34 5.87 6.56 6.18 7.35 4.21
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 GROUP ACTIVITY
RUBRICS:

Cooperation/ Teamwork –10

Appropriateness –10
Delivery –10

TOTAL:30
 GROUP ACTIVITY
What did you feel about the activity?
Were you able to do successfully the
tasked?
What percent did you got in the number
1 task?
How about the number 2 task?
How about the number 3 task?
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Statements about the normal curve:
• The total area under the normal curve is equal to 1.
• The probability that a normal random variable X
equals any particular value a, P(X=a) is zero (0) (since
it is a continuous random variable).
• The probability that X is less than a equals the area
under the normal curve bounded by a and minus infinity
(as indicated by the shaded area in the figure below)
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• The probability that X is greater than some value a

equals the area under the normal curve bounded by a
and plus infinity (as indicated by the non-shaded area
in the figure above
• Since the normal curve is symmetric about the mean, the
area under the curve to the right of m equals the area
under the curve to the left of m which equals ½, i.e. the
mean m is the median.
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• The probability density function is maximized at m, i.e. the
mode is also the mean.
• The normal curve has inflection points (i.e. point at which a
change in the direction of curvature occurs) at m - s and at
m+s
• As x increases without bound (gets larger and larger), the
graph approaches but never reaches, the horizontal axis.
As x decreases without bound (gets larger and larger in the
negative direction), the graph approaches, but never
reaches, the horizontal axis
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The following "empirical rule" (also called the 68-95-99.7 rule):
• About 68% of the area under the curve falls within 1 standard
deviation of the mean.
• About 95% of the area under the curve falls within 2 standard
deviations of the mean.
• Nearly the entire distribution (About 99.7% of the area under the
curve) falls within 3 standard deviations of the mean.
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APPLICATION:

Suppose scores on an IQ test

are normally distributed. If the
test has a mean of 100 and a
standard deviation of 10, what
is the probability that a person
who takes the test will score
between 90 and 110?
SEATWORK 6:
Test I. TRUE OR FALSE:
1. The total area under the normal curve is equal to 1.
2. The probability that a normal random variable X equals any particular
value a, P(X=a) is 1.
3. About 68% of the area under the curve falls within 1 standard
deviation of the mean.
4. As x increases without bound (gets larger and larger), the graph
approaches but never reaches, the horizontal axis.
5. The shape of the normal probability distribution is symmetric about
the mean.
Test II.
Suppose scores on an IQ test are normally distributed. If the test has a
mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 10, what is the probability that a
person who takes the test will score between 80 and 120?
ASSIGNMENT 7:
Suppose the weights of Filipino Grade 11
students are normally distributed with a
mean of 52 kilograms and a standard
deviation of 1 kilogram. Construct
normal curve and Explain what this
means in terms of the properties of a
normal distribution
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Mrs. JENNIFER L. BARDAJE