LOURDES INTEGRATED SCHOOL

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

SUMMATIVE
Name:
I. Read the instructions and answer accordingly.
1. The standard normal distribution
a. has a mean of zero (0) and a standard deviation of 1.
b. has a mean of 1 and a variance of zero (0).
c. has an area equal to 0.5.
d. cannot be used to approximate discrete probability distributions.
2. If Z has a standard normal distribution, and P (0 < Z < z ) is 0.3770, then the
value of z is
a. 0.18 b. 0.81 c. 1.16 d. 1.47
3. True or False: The probability that a standard normal random variable, Z, falls
between – 1.50 and 0.81 is 0.7242.
4. Suppose Z has a standard normal distribution with a mean of 0 and standard
deviation of 1. The probability that Z is less than 1.15 is __________.
5. Suppose Z has a standard normal distribution with a mean of zero (0) and
standard deviation of 1. The probability that Z values are larger than __________
is 0.3483.
6. Suppose Z has a standard normal distribution with a mean of zero (0) and
standard deviation of 1. 85% of the possible Z values are smaller than
__________.
7. Let Z be a standard normal random variable. Calculate:
(a) P(Z ≤ 1.43);
(b) P(Z> 1.43);
(c) P( –1.43 ≤ Z ≤ 1.43).
8. If a particular batch of data is approximately normally distributed, we would find that
approximately
a) 2 of every 3 observations would fall between ± 1 standard deviation around the
mean.
b) 4 of every 5 observations would fall between ± 1.28 standard deviations around
the mean.
c) 19 of every 20 observations would fall between ± 2 standard deviations around
the mean.
d) All the above.
9. The probability that a randomly selected Grade 11 student will play one game of Candy
Crush in less than 3 minutes is
a) 0.3551
b) 0.3085
c) 0.2674
d) 0.1915
10. The probability that a randomly-selected grade 11 student will take between 2 and 4.5
minutes to play Candy Crush is:
a) 0.0919
b) 0.2255
c) 0.4938
d) 0.7745
II. Solve the following problem.
1. Rodrigo earned a score of 940 on a national achievement test. The mean test score was 850 with a standard deviation of
100. What proportion of students had a higher score than Rodrigo? (Assume that test scores are normally distributed.) If
there were 100,000 students who took the test, how many would be expected to have a higher score than Rodrigo?
2. Every night when you get home from school, you take your dog Bantay for a walk. The length of the walk is normally
distributed with a mean of m=15 minutes and standard deviation of s=3 minutes.
(a) What proportion of walks last less than 15 minutes?
(b) What proportion of walks last longer than 20 minutes?
(c) What proportion of walks last between 10 and 16 minutes?