The average grade of second year Business Management students in a certain college is normally distributed with a mean of 84 and a standard deviation of 5. What is the smallest interval that contains the middle 90% of scores of the said students? Use whole numbers as the bounds of your interval. If your answer is 60-80, write: 60 to 80.
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!
The average grade of second year Business Management students in a certain college is
Use whole numbers as the bounds of your interval. If your answer is 60-80, write: 60 to 80.
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