Quiz (Assignment) No.

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Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distributions
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Name:_________________________________________ Course & Year:____________________

Instructions: Please refer to Chapter 3 in your google classroom. Solve the following problems and submit
your work and solutions on a clean paper to your instructor on or before October 16, 2023.
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1. For the standard normal distribution,
a. find the area within 1 standard deviation of the mean—that is, the area between µ - σ and µ
+ σ. (5pts.)
b. Draw the standard normal curve and shade the area of your answer. (5pts)

2. For the standard normal distribution,

a. find the area within 2.8 standard deviations of the mean—that is, the area between µ - 2.8σ
and µ + 2.8σ. (5pts.)
b. Draw the standard normal curve and shade the area of your answer (5pts.)

3. Find the area under the standard normal curve (25pts.)

a. between z = 0 and z =2.34 b. between z = 0 and z = -2.58
c. between z = 0.84 and z = 1.95 d. from z = -0.57 to z = -2.49
e. from z = -2.15 to z = 1.87

4. Find the following areas under a normal distribution curve with µ=12 and σ=2. (15pts.)
a. Area between x=7.76 and x=12
b. Area between x=14.48 and x=16.54
c. Area from x=8.22 to x =10.06

5. Let x denote the time taken to run a road race. Suppose x is approximately normally
distributed with a mean of 180 minutes and a standard deviation of 20 minutes. If one runner
is selected at random, what is the probability that this runner will complete this road race.
(10pts.)
a. in less than 150 minutes?
b. in 215 to 245 minutes?

6. The Bank of Connecticut issues Visa and MasterCard credit cards. It is estimated that the
balances on all Visa credit cards issued by the Bank of Connecticut have a mean of $745 and a
standard deviation of $170. Assume that the balances on all these Visa cards follow a normal
distribution.
a. What is the probability that a randomly selected Visa card issued by this bank has a balance
between $900 and $1200? (5pts.)
b. What percentage of the Visa cards issued by this bank have a balance of $630 or more?
(5pts.)

7. Find the value of z so that the area under the standard normal curve (20pts.)
a. from 0 to z is .4772 and z is positive
b. between 0 and z is (approximately) .4785 and z is negative
c. in the left tail is (approximately) .3565
d. in the right tail is (approximately) .1530

EMATH 214 – Engineering Data Analysis