A variable is normally distributed with mean 32 and standard deviation 12. Use the Cumulative Z-Score Table to answer the following questions. Write your answers in decimal form using 4 decimal places. a) Find the area under the normal curve to the left of the data value 3.2. b) Find the area under the normal curve to the left of the data value 12.8. c) Find the area under the normal curve to the right of the data value 20.6.
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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