Use the normal distribution to the right to answer the questions.(a) What percent of the scores are less than 19?(b) Out of 1500 randomly selected scores, about how many would be expected to be greater than 21?(a) The percent of scores that are less than 19 is nothing%.(Round to two decimal places as needed.)(b) About nothing scores would be expected to be greater than 21.(Round to the nearest whole number as needed.)
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 image contains a bell-shaped normal distribution curve, which is symmetric about a central value. The x-axis is labeled as "Score," and specific scores 19 and 21 are marked and highlighted with a vertical red dashed line at 20, indicating the mean (\( \mu \)) of the distribution.
Key features:
- The mean (\( \mu \)) is indicated as 19.5, slightly to the left of the peak of the graph.
- The standard deviation (\( \sigma \)) is given as 5.4, which measures the spread of the distribution.
- The curve represents the distribution of scores, showing that most scores are clustered around the mean.
Understanding this graph is essential for grasping how data is distributed around a mean in a normally distributed set. The standard deviation informs how much variation there is from the average score.](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F978aad89-cd58-41d9-a303-0b17b5ff3c37%2F5c1ba7ac-7509-40f0-9419-ab60d2c49f27%2Fcvjp4xe_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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