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problems: Empirical rule
(from ck12.org)

Qualitative sense of Many measurements t a special distribution called the normal distribution. In
normal distributions
(from ck12.org) a normal distribution,

Practice: Empirical rule 68% of the data falls within 1 standard deviation of the mean
95% of the data falls within 2 standard deviations of the mean
Basic normal
calculations
99.7% of the data falls within 3 standard deviations of the mean

2.35% 34% 34% 2.35%

0.15% 13.5% 13.5% 0.15%

3 2 1 0 1 2 3
Mean

PROBLEM 1

A large sample of females had their systolic blood pressure measured. The
mean blood pressure was 125 millimeters of mercury and the standard
deviation was 10 millimeters of mercury.

Which normal distribution below best summarizes the data?

125 135 145 155 165 175 185

Blood pressure

95 105 115 125 135 145 155

Blood pressure

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80 95 110 125 140 155 170

Blood pressure

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PROBLEM 2

What percent of females had blood pressures between 105 and 135
millimeters of mercury?

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PROBLEM 3

The sample had a total of 400 females that participated.

About how many females in the sample had blood pressures higher than 145
millimeters of mercury?

females

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What is the Gauss curve have to do with this?

7 votes 2 comments Flag 8 months ago by Tushar

For the empirical rule to be valid the data must be normally distributed, so the rules for
percentages in the problems above would not hold true if the data didn't follow a
gaussian or normal distribution.
8 votes Comment Flag 8 months ago by jasongulley

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I answered the last question in the following way. I gured out the z score which was 0.9772
for value that is two standard deviations above normal. Therefore one can deduce that the
sample size that lies to the right of this should be 0.0228 (1-0.9772). That multiplied by 400
gives me 9.1 approximated to 9. What is wrong with this method?
4 votes Comment Flag 3 months ago by venkataramanareddy.t.a

I agree that using the z-Score is the most accurate answer. The answer given is using
approximations of the normal and are not as accurate.
2 votes Comment Flag about a month ago by tomthorpe55

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Melons are sold in three sizes: small, medium and large. The weights follow a normal
distribution
with mean 450 grams and standard deviation 120 grams. Melons weighing less than 350
grams are
classied as small.
(i) Find the proportion of melons which are classied as small. [3]
(ii) The rest of the melons are divided in equal proportions between medium and large. Find
the
weight above which melons are classied as large.
3 votes Comment Flag 6 months ago by Emmanuella Adamah

So basically:
mean = 450,
st dev. = 120,
small < 350, right?
For (i), the melons that are considered small is less than 350 grams, but that tells you
nothing about its position in the distribution. To nd its position, you can nd the z-score
(or standardized score) of it, z = (x-mean)/standard deviation, z = (350-450)/120 =
-0.8333 (This means that a small melon is at least 0.8333 standard deviations away
from the mean). Then you can use this z-score and nd the probability of melons that
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4 votes Comment Flag 6 months ago by 62 Zheng, Bin

where does the 13.5% come from in question 3?

2 votes Comment Flag 6 months ago by 721281

Empirical rule!
Ok, so 95% of the observations are within 2 standard deviations of the mean, and 68%
of the observations are within 1 standard deviation of the mean, right?
Let's nd the dierence between 2 s.d. and 1 s.d. It will be 95%-68%=27%. But you have
to divide this 27% by 2 because you have to nd the percentage between 105 and 115
millimeters. There comes 13.5%!
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IQ scores on the WAIS test approximate a normal curve with a mean of 100 and a standard
deviation of 15. What IQ score is identied with the middle 99%
1 vote Comment Flag 3 months ago by Susan Rankin

The standard deviation rule is generally 689599.7 (1, 2, and 3 standard deviations),
so we could only guestimate it to be about 55 to 145. But this is 99.7% which would
mean only .3% of people lie outside this range. Of course with 7.5 billion people, that
would be 22.5 million people outside the range which is a lot for such a small
percentage. If you assume about half are above and about half below, that is still 11
million geniuses.
2 votes Comment Flag 3 months ago by david severin

Female emperor penguins had a mean of 27.4kg with. Standard deviation of 4.1 kg.
What percent of female emperor penguins have a body mass greater than 27.4kg
1 vote Comment Flag 6 months ago by Carissa Levin

Use the formula to calculate z-score i.e. x-mean/sd >>> 27.4-27.4/4.1=0. Find the z-
tabulated for the calculated z score (of 0) in table, which is 0.5000 or 50%.
1 vote Comment Flag 3 months ago by Muhammad Afzal

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I don't understand problem and can you give me more help

1 vote Comment Flag 4 months ago by Paulianasouverain29

try watching a couple videos and using the hints after the problems
1 vote Comment Flag 4 months ago by Noah Axford

what is the middle 99.7 % of birth weights

1 vote Comment Flag 6 months ago by Brandon Merriweather

same as the over all mean

1 vote Comment Flag 6 months ago by sudhakar puttagunta

The probability that a randomly selected voter in the state of Sippisota was an independent
was 13.8%. 215 voters were surveyed. Is this a binomial situation? If so, show that a normal
distribution may be used to approximate it.
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Are these realistic statistics? They better not be, my math teacher commonly uses extremely
unrealistic stats, it's funny.
1 vote Comment Flag 5 months ago by TheYoungMind2019 Carol_Irizarry

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Empirical rule

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