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The document is a final exam for a statistics course. It contains 9 multi-part problems testing concepts of the normal distribution, including calculating probabilities, percentiles, and determining mean and standard deviation based on given percentiles. Students are asked to show their work and provide final answers rounded to 4 decimal places within boxes.

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Q2 Special Continuous

The document is a final exam for a statistics course. It contains 9 multi-part problems testing concepts of the normal distribution, including calculating probabilities, percentiles, and determining mean and standard deviation based on given percentiles. Students are asked to show their work and provide final answers rounded to 4 decimal places within boxes.

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Adamson University

Engineering Probability and Statistics


Q2 – FINALS SCORE

Name1: _______________________________ Date: _________________________

Name 2: _______________________________ Schedule: ______________________

Solve the following problems: Show all your solutions and limit your answer to 4 decimal places. BOX YOUR FINAL ANSWER.

1. The finished inside diameter of a piston ring is normally distributed with a mean of 10 centimeters and a standard deviation of
0.03 centimeter.
a. What proportion of rings will have inside diameters exceeding 10.075 centimeters?
b. What is the probability that a piston ring will have an inside diameter between 9.97 and 10.03 centimeters?
c. Below what value of inside diameter will 15% of the piston rings fall?

2. A research scientist reports that mice will live an average of 40 months when their diets are sharply restricted and then
enriched with vitamins and proteins. Assuming that the lifetimes of such mice are normally distributed with a standard
deviation of 6.3 months, find the probability that a given mouse will live
a. More than 32 months;
b. Between 37 and 49 months.

3. The IQs of 600 applicants of a certain college are approximately normally distributed with a mean of 115 and a standard
deviation of 12. If the college requires an IQ of at least 95, how many of these students will be rejected on this basis
regardless of their other qualifications?
4. The mean IQ of 320 college students of a certain university is 100 with a standard deviation of 20. Assuming that IQ’s are
normally distributed; find the number of students with IQ
a. above 135
b. below 90
c. what percent of the cases cannot score above 110?

5. The grades of a group of 1000 students in an exam are normally distributed with a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 10. A
student from this group is selected randomly.
a. Find the probability that his/her grade is greater than 80.
b. Find the probability that his/her grade is between 50 and 80.
c.Approximately, how many students have grades greater than 80?

6. Suppose the weights of adult males are normally distributed and the 6.68% are less than 130 lbs. in weight, and 77.45% are
between 130 and 180 lbs. Find the mean and standard deviation of the distribution.

7. The Heights of Filipino men follow a normal distribution with mean 65 inches and standard deviation 3 in. How high must a
doorway be so that 95% of Filipino men can go through without having to bend?
8. A lawyer commutes daily from his suburban home to his midtown office. The average time for a one-way trip is 24 minutes,
with a standard deviation of 3.8 minutes. Assume the distribution of trip times to be normally distributed.
a. What is the probability that a trip will take at least 1/2 hour?
b. If the office opens at 9:00 A.M. and he leaves his house at 8:45 A.M. daily, what percentage of the time is he late
for work?
c. If he leaves the house at 8:35 A.M. and coffee is served at the office from 8:50 A.M. until 9:00 A.M., what is the
probability that he misses coffee?
d. Find the length of time above which we find the slowest 15% of the trips.
e. Find the probability that 2 of the next 3 trips will take at least 1/2 hour.

9. The score on GEMM IQ Test for the college graduating students are normally distributed with mean 115 and standard
deviation 20.

a. What percent of the students score below 85 on this IQ Test ?


b. What is the probability that a student will score above 180 on this IQ Test?
c. What is the probability that a student will score between 90 and 150 on this IQ Test?
d. Marie only wants to date men in the top 15% on this intelligence scale. How high must a man score for Marie
to date him?

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