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The document provides examples of problems involving normal distributions, including determining percentages of a population that fall within certain ranges on a normal distribution curve, calculating probabilities of fish weights or exam scores falling above or below certain values given the mean and standard deviation, and finding the number of customers likely to replace a television within a given number of years based on replacement averages. It also includes examples using the Poisson distribution to calculate probabilities of certain numbers of accidents occurring along roads within given time periods.

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The document provides examples of problems involving normal distributions, including determining percentages of a population that fall within certain ranges on a normal distribution curve, calculating probabilities of fish weights or exam scores falling above or below certain values given the mean and standard deviation, and finding the number of customers likely to replace a television within a given number of years based on replacement averages. It also includes examples using the Poisson distribution to calculate probabilities of certain numbers of accidents occurring along roads within given time periods.

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Assignment Distributions

1. In this standard normal distribution, determine the percentage of the population that occurs in
each of these regions.

The coordinates of the points are A(-3.5)

B(-2.5)
C(-0.5)

i) ii) iii) iv)

A-B B-C B-E D-F

Hint: Refer document Reading normal distribution .

2) Assuming that the weights of fish are normally distributed, Fisheries Department officials have
determined that fish in the South Tamilnadu average 1.6 kg with a standard deviation of 0.5 kg.

a) How many fish out of 5,000 would weigh more than 2.1 kg? b) If someone told you that they caught a 3.4kg fish out of the River, how inclined to believe them
would you be? Use the slider to indicate your inclination on a scale of 1 to 10 where 0 means that you would not believe them at all and 10 means that you would believe them completely. 3) The science department at a university wants the final marks of a first year biology course to be normally distributed with a mean of 65% and a standard deviation of 10%. If 1,600 students take the course, how many of them will receive a mark: a) between 55% and 75% ? b) greater than 85% ?

4) According to a consumer report, television sets are replaced at 7 years, on average, with a standard
deviation of 1.5 years. If an appliance store sold television sets to 5,000 custumers last year, how many customers will replace their television sets: a) within 4 years? b) between 4 and 10 years?

5) On the average, 3 in 20 in a college with a large population watched the World Cup Finals. Take each class in this college to have exactly 26 students. What is the distribution of the number of students who watched the Finals in a randomly chosen class? Give one assumption for your distribution to be valid. Using the distribution stated above, find the probability that in a randomly chosen class (i) the number of students who watched the Finals is less than the expected number of students. (ii) not more than 5 students watched the Finals given that more than 2 students watched the Finals. 6) On the average, there are 1.2 accidents occurring along Adam Road in a day. Assuming Poisson distribution to be valid for (i) to (iii), Find i. the probability that there are less than 2 days in a week with at least 1 accident. ii. the least number of consecutive days after which probability of at least one accident occurring on Adam Road exceeds 0.99. On the average, there are 4 accidents occurring on Eve Road in 10 days. iii. Find the probability that in a day, there are more accidents occurring on Eve Road than on Adam Road given that there are altogether 4 accidents occurring on both the roads. State an assumption for your calculation to be valid. Explain why the number of accidents occurring along a stretch of road in a day may not have followed a Poisson distribution. iv. Find the probability that among 5 days, there are 2 accidents on Adam Road in one day and none in the other days.

7) Find out which distribution fits the following data sets a.

data.xls

b.

ALbb.salaries.2003.x ls

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