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This will help you in understanding the concept of normal distribution in statistics. It has previous year questions for better understanding.
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Example 1. Find the area under the standard normal curve which lies
(9 to the right of Z= 2.70
(#@ to the left of Z= 1.73
(i) to the right of Z= — 0.66
(iv) to the left of Z= ~ 1.88
(Y between Z= 1.25 and Z= 1.67
(v) between Z=~- 1.85 and Z=- 0.90
(vi) between Z=— 1.45 and Z= 1.45
Example 2. If X is normally distributed with np = 20 and o = 4, tind
following probabilities :
(9 P(X> 15); (i) P(21< X< 25); (ii) P (16 < X< 22)
Example 25. The marks of the students in a class of 100 are not
with mean marks as 40 and variance marks as 400. Find :
(9 Q, and Q, and (ii) coefficient of quartile deviation.
[Dethi Univ. B.| ample 3. A project yields an average cashflow of 2550 lakhs and vende deviation
sh flow of %110. Calculate the following probabilities assuming the normal
a
gistibation ‘
")) Cash flow will be more than %675 lakhs.
i Cash flow will be less than %450 lakhs.
(i) Cas
cash flow will be between %425 lakhs and %750 lakhs.
Example 4. It is known that amounts of money spent on textbooks in
students ofa particular university follow a normal distribution with mean
standard deviation 7500. 4
() What is the probability that a randomly selected student will spend
%4000 on text-books in a year?
(@ What is the probability that a randomly selected student will spend
%3600 on textbooks in a year? _
(i) What is the probability that a randomly selected student will spend
%3000 and 74000 on textbooks in a year. [Delhi Univ. B.Com.le 5. A workshop produces 2000 articles per day. The average weight of a unit
ith a standard deviation of 10 kg. Assuming normal distribution, how
js 130 kg wi ,
many units are expected to weigh
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i i 79. The
Examp! test marks ina particular test is
is 5. If eal distributed, how many students in a
is 5.
not receive marks between 75 and 82? [Dethi Univ. B.
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Example 7. The monthly income distribution of workers 1n a certain)
found to be normal with mean %500 and standard deviation equal to 250.
228 persons getting income above %600 per month. How many workers we
all ? Extract of area under standard normal curve is given as follows
g 1 2 25 3
Area 0.3413 0.4772 0.4938 0.4987
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- 8. Time taken by a construction compas
400 1: pany to construct a fl i
mre with mean 00 labour days and standard deviation of 100 eB a See
“Ny promises to abour days. If the
construct the flyover in 450
days or Ie
210,000 for each labour day spent in excess of 450, cca meee Sbability
e probability
e com
pany pays a penalty of at least 2,00,000?
company takes at Haka days to complete flyover?
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er day with a standard deviati c MSM he
more litres of petols Doe Petrol sold to a vehicle is 20
¢ station on that day, a imate the total number of vehicles that soon ney
» assuming normal distribution eres that took petrol
for petrol sold.
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(Econ. Hons.) 2003}
Example 10. The life-time in hours
of a certain electrical equipment has {fj
distribution with mean = 80 and standard deviation = 16. © Norma,
(9 What is the probability that
{i Ifthe equipment has already lasted 88 hours, what is the conditional
thet i wil last at least another 12 hours?[Delhi Univ. B.A. (Econ, Hong
sample 9. At the petrol station, th '
; , the average quant
— tity of
the equipment lasts at least 100 hours?in examination, 15% of the candidates passed wi
4. It is known that a candidate fails if he obt men Ve UL Dat =
ae as Scores of an entrance examination are ae a 31,09,95),
ith a mean of 118 and standard deviation as 12 own to be Normal,
) Ifa candidate obtaining a score of at least 100 is declared successful, what is
the probability that a candidate chosen at random will be successful?
{) Obtain the jowest score of the top 25% of the candidates.
Ifit is decided to pass 70% of those taking the examination, what should be the
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lowest passing, scores?