Calculating the probability with normal distributions
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- Q1What is the Z-score formula?Z = (x + μ) * 𝜎Z = (x + μ) / 𝜎Z = (x - μ) / 𝜎Z = (x - μ) *𝜎30s
- Q2What is the area under the normal curve?30%1230s
- Q3What is the empirical rule in normal distribution?70-95-9968-95-99.768-90-9990-95-99.730s
- Q4What is the term for the standard deviation of a sampling distribution?Standard deviationMeanVarianceStandard error30s
- Q5What percentage of data falls within one standard deviation of the mean in a normal distribution?2.5%34%68%16%30s
- Q6What percentage of data falls within two standard deviations of the mean in a normal distribution?95%47.5%68%99.7%30s
- Q7What percentage of data falls within three standard deviations of the mean in a normal distribution?68%99.7%79.5%95%30s
- Q8If a data set is normally distributed and has a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 5, what is the range that covers 68% of the data?Between 40 and 60Between 30 and 70Between 35 and 65Between 45 and 5530s
- Q9If a data set is normally distributed and has a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 10, what is the range that covers 95% of the data?Between 60 and 80Between 50 and 90Between 40 and 100Between 30 and 11030s
- Q10If a data set is normally distributed and has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15, what is the range that covers 99.7% of the data?Between 85 and 115Between 55 and 145Between 90 and 110Between 70 and 13030s