AP Statistics › How to use tables of normal distribution
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Find the area under the standard normal curve between Z=1.5 and Z=2.4.
Alex took a test in physics and scored a 35. The class average was 27 and the standard deviation was 5.
Noah took a chemistry test and scored an 82. The class average was 70 and the standard deviation was 8.
Show that Alex had the better performance by calculating -
Alex's standard normal percentile and
Noah's standard normal percentile
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Arrivals to a bed and breakfast follow a Poisson process. The expected number of arrivals each week is 4. What is the probability that there are exactly 3 arrivals over the course of one week?
Gabbie earned a score of 940 on a national achievement test. The mean test score was 850 with a sample standard deviation of 100. What proportion of students had a higher score than Gabbie? (Assume that test scores are normally distributed.)
The masses of tomatoes are normally distributed with a mean of grams and a standard deviation of
grams. What mass of tomatoes would be the
percentile of the masses of all the tomatoes?
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