Question

For a normal distribution, find the percentage of data that area) within 1 standard deviation of the meanb) to the right of 1.5 standard deviations below the meanc) more than 0.5 standard deviations away from the mean

Answer 1

Answer:

a) 68%.

b) 93.3%

c) 61.7%

Step-by-step explanation:

We are asked to find the percentage of data under normal distribution for given boundaries.

a) The percentage of data that are within 1 standard deviation of the mean.

We will use empirical rule to solve our given problem.

Empirical rule states that approximately 68% of the data lies within one standard deviation of the mean, therefore, answer for part (a) would be 68%.

b) Since z-score represents that a data point is how many standard deviation above or below mean.

We need to find $P(z>-1.5)$. We will use formula $P(z>a)=1-P(z$ to solve our given problem.

$P(z>-1.5)=1-P(z$

Using normal distribution table, we will get:

$P(z>-1.5)=1-0.06681$

$P(z>-1.5)=0.93319$

$0.93319\times 100\%=93.319\%\approx 93.3\%$

Therefore, approximately 93.3% of the data is to the right of 1.5 standard deviations below the mean.

c) We need to find $P(z0.5)$.

$P(z0.5)$

Since normal distribution is symmetric so both these values will be equal.

$0.30854+0.30854=0.61708$

$0.61708\times 100\%=61.708\%\approx 61.7\%$

Therefore, approximately 61.7% of the data set is more than 0.5 standard deviations away from the mean.