SCHEDULE

SESSION LESSON/TASK
1 Normal Distribution
2 Standard Normal Distribution / Drill
3 Normal to Standard Normal / Drill
4 SEATWORK 1
 Normal
Distribution
Objectives:
1. Define, illustrate, and give examples of normal
distribution
2. Illustrate properties of normal distribution
Some distributions are…

Skewed to the right

Skewed to the left

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Can you describe the distribution of each of
the following?

Retirement
Age

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Can you describe the distribution of each of
the following?

Facebook
users
(by age)
worldwide

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Can you describe the distribution of each of
the following?

Facebook
users
(by age) in
the
Philippines

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Can you describe the distribution of each of
the following?

Basketball players’ heights

“Bell curve”

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 The Normal Distribution

- the most important and

most widely used
distribution in statistics
- sometimes called the
"bell curve“

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Examples:

Shoe Size

Height

IQ Score

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Examples:
birth weights

Other examples:
a. size of things produced
by machines
b. errors in measurements
c. blood pressure
d. marks on a test

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 Quincunx Model
“Galton Board”
- a triangular array of pegs
- balls are dropped onto the top
peg and then bounce their way
down to the bottom where they
are collected in little bins
- when there is an equal chance
of bouncing left or right, then the
balls collected in the bins form
the classic "bell-shaped" curve
of the normal distribution.
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Characteristics of a Normal Distribution

• symmetric around their mean

• mean = median = mode
• area under the normal curve is 1
• denser in the center and less
dense in the tails

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Characteristics of a Normal Distribution

EMPIRICAL RULE
Approximately:
• 68% of values are within
1 SD of the mean
• 95% of values are within
2 SD of the mean
• 99.7% of values are within
     2   3
3 SD of the mean
  3   2

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Characteristics of a Normal Distribution

That means…
Any value is
• likely to be within 1 standard
deviation of the mean
• very likely to be within 2
standard deviations
• almost certainly within 3
     2   3
standard deviations
  3   2

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Example:
Suppose the weights of Grade 11 students are normally
distributed with a mean of 52 kilograms and a standard
deviation of 1 kilogram. Explain what this means in terms
of the properties of a normal distribution.

a. median 52 kg
b. weights of 68% of the students 51-53 kg
c. weights of 95% of the students 50-54 kg
d. weights of 99.7% of the students 49-55 kg
Example:
68% of students at school are
between 1.2m and 1.4m tall.

1. Determine the mean.

1.3m
  3   2      2   3
2. Determine the standard
1.2 1.3 1.4
deviation.
0.1 0.1

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Example:

95% of students at school are

between 0.9m and 1.7m tall.

1. Determine the mean.

1.3m
  3   2      2   3
2. Determine the standard
0.9 1.3 1.7
deviation.
0.2 0.4

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 Area Under the Curve
The probability that X is less than a equals the area under the
normal curve bounded by a and negative infinity.

What is
P(X < a) P(X > a)?

  a 
Note that P(X = a) is 0 (zero) since it is a continuous random
variable.
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Mrs. Smith gave a test in her Algebra 2 class. The
scores were normally distributed with a mean of 85
and a standard deviation of 3.

68%

79 82 85 88 91

What percent would you expect to score between

82 and 88?

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The waiting times for an elevator are normally distributed
with a mean of 1.5 minutes and a standard deviation of
20s.
  90   20

50 70 90 110 130

Find the probability that a person

waits longer than 2 minutes 10 P( X  130 )
seconds for the elevator.
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The waiting times for an elevator are normally distributed
with a mean of 1.5 minutes and a standard deviation of
20s.
  90   20

2.5% 2.5%
50 70 90 110 130

Find the probability that a person

waits longer than 2 minutes 10 P( X  130 ) = 2.5%
seconds for the elevator.
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