Normal Distribution Practice Exercises

Instructions:
1. Answer each exercise, using the Standard Normal Table as appropriate.
2. You are encouraged to work together.
3. For each exercise, a properly-labeled sketch is recommended.

Exercises Notes

Part 1: Using the Normal Distribution Table ‘Outside-in’, to find

Probabilities

1. What proportion of observations on the Standard Normal

Distribution is greater than z = 2.14 ?

2. Find P ( z > 2.14 ) .

3. Find P ( z ≥ 2.14 ) .

4. Suppose a population of data is claimed to follow a Standard Normal

distribution. What should be the likelihood of finding a data value
greater than 7, assuming the claim is true?
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Exercise Notes

5. Suppose someone claims that a population of data follows a Standard

Normal distribution. You decide to test that claim by selecting a data
value. If your selected value turns out to be greater than 7, how
confident are you in the claim?

Part 2: Using the Normal Distribution Table ‘Inside-out’, to find

Scores

6. Find the score z on the Standard Normal distribution so that the

proportion of observations below z is .0344.

7. Find the value, z, on the Standard Normal distribution so that the

probability greater than z is 15%.

Part 3: Using the Standardization formula to finding probabilities on

Non-Standard Normal Distributions

8. On a (Non-Standard) Normal distribution with mean 100 and

standard deviation 10, what is the proportion of observations below
123?
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9. Suppose the distribution of lengths of the common garden snake

follows a Normal distribution with mean µ = 6 inches and standard
deviation σ = 1.5 inches. What is the probability of finding a snake
longer than 7 inches?

10. Suppose the distribution of thickness of circuit boards produced by

Intel is supposed to be Normal, with mean µ = 12 mm, and standard
deviation σ = 0.7 mm, if the manufacturing process is working
correctly. Suppose circuit boards thinner than 10 mm are at risk of
breaking. Assuming the claimed distribution is true, what should be the
proportion of circuit boards that are at risk of breaking?

11. Suppose I am working as a quality control investigator, testing

circuit boards. Intel claims that the distribution of thickness of their
circuit boards is as described in exercise 10. To test this claim, I select
one circuit board at random. Should it be very likely for one randomly-
selected circuit board to be thinner than 10 mm? If, in fact, the board I
select does turn out to be thinner than 10 mm, what do you think this
suggests about the claim?
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Part 4: Using the Standardization formula in reverse, to find scores on

Non-Standard Normal distributions

12. Suppose that, from smoker to smoker, the number of cigarettes

smoked per day varies Normally, with mean 11 cigarettes, and standard
deviation 5 cigarettes. How many cigarettes per day are smoked by the
top 8% of smokers?

13. Adult male height in the U.S. is Normally distributed, with mean
69.3 inches, and standard deviation 2.8 inches. Gordon is just at the
bottom 2.94% of males, for height. How tall is Gordon?