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Normal Distribution
Normal Distribution
Joyce’s z score
= 0.67
Who made it to the top 10%?
• Students with at least
79.23 math scores
belonged to the top 10%.
Activity 1: Work in pairs with your Excel®.
Write your answers in a sheet of paper.
• Download the Excel file “GRADE 8 DATA”, and do the following:
• 1. Find the measures of central tendency and dispersion of the
SELF_EFFICACY variable. Construct a histogram for the variable and why or
why not it represents a normally distributed variable.
• 2. Construct appropriate descriptive graphs for the variables SOCIOECON
and HONORS. (Note: Make a frequency table first using the COUNTIF
function.) Interpret the graphs.
• 3. Standardize the variable SELF_EFFICACY. Give 5 scores with
corresponding z-scores.
• 4. Find the approximate percentage of students with self-efficacy scores
between 50 and 75, below 45, and above 80.