Golf scores A golfer keeps track of his score for playingnine holes of golf (half a normal golf round). His meanscore is 85 with a standard deviation of 11. Assuming that the second 9 has the same mean and standard devia-tion, what is the mean and standard deviation of his total score if he plays a full 18 holes?
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!
Golf scores A golfer keeps track of his score for playing
nine holes of golf (half a normal golf round). His
score is 85 with a standard deviation of 11. Assuming
tion, what is the mean and standard deviation of his total
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