1. The average price of the kilogram of ham is P1,200. Assume that the standard deviation is P140. If a random sample of 30 one-kilogram package is selected, find the probability that the mean sample will be less than P1,170. Solution: 2. The average elementary teacher's salary in Recoletors Schools is P17,300. Assume a normal distribution with standard deviation of P 2530. What is the probability that the mean for a sample of 36 teachers' salaries is lesser than P 16,500? Solution: 3. The average score of employees on mental examinations is 110. Suppose that nothing is known about the shape of the distribution and that the standard deviation is 28. If a random sample of 90 scores were selected and the sample mean were calculated to be 102, what is the probability that the mean of the sample is greater than 102? Solution:
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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