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This document provides 10 practice problems involving probabilities of normal distributions. The problems cover calculating probabilities for standard normal distributions, finding z-scores, determining probabilities for normal distributions with given means and standard deviations, using the normal approximation for binomial distributions, and applying normal distributions to scenarios involving business, medical testing, and telephone calls.

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Tutorial 4

This document provides 10 practice problems involving probabilities of normal distributions. The problems cover calculating probabilities for standard normal distributions, finding z-scores, determining probabilities for normal distributions with given means and standard deviations, using the normal approximation for binomial distributions, and applying normal distributions to scenarios involving business, medical testing, and telephone calls.

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MTH3003

Semester 1, Session 2018/2019


MTH3003
SECOND SEMESTER SESSION 2016/17
TUTORIAL 4

1. Find these probabilities for the standard normal random variable 𝑧:


(a) 𝑃(𝑧 < 2.33)
(b) 𝑃(𝑧 < 1.645)
(c) 𝑃(𝑧 > 1.96)
(d) 𝑃(−2.58 < 𝑧 < 2.58)

2. Find a 𝑧 such that:


(a) 𝑃(𝑧 > 𝑧 ) = 0.025
(b) 𝑃(−𝑧 < 𝑧 < 𝑧 ) = 0.8262

3. A normal random variable 𝑥 has mean 𝜇 = 10 and standard deviation 𝜎 = 2. Find the
probabilities of these 𝑥-values:
(a) 𝑥 > 13.5
(b) 𝑥 < 8.2
(c) 9.4 < 𝑥 < 10.6

4. A normal random variable 𝑥 has an unknown mean and standard deviation. The
probability that 𝑥 exceeds 4 is 0.9772, and the probability that 𝑥 exceeds 5 is 0.9332.
Find 𝜇 and 𝜎.

5. Suppose that the amount of money spent at shopping centers between 4 and 6PM on
Sundays has a normal distribution with a mean of $85 and standard deviation of $10. A
shopper is randomly selected on a Sunday between 4 to 6PM and asked about his
spending pattern.
(a) What is the probability that he has spent more than $90 at the mall?
(b) What is the probability that he has spent between $90 and $100 at the mall?
(c) If two shoppers are randomly selected, what is the probability that both shoppers
have spent more than $100 at the mall?


6. Let 𝑥 be a binomial random variable with 𝑛 = 25 and 𝑝 = 0.3.
(a) Is the normal approximation appropriate for this binomial random variable?
(b) Find the mean and standard deviation for 𝑥
(c) Use the normal approximation to find 𝑃(6 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 9)

7. In a certain population, 15% of the people have Rh-negative blood. A blood bank serving this
population receives 92 blood donors on a particular day.
(a) What is the probability that 10 or fewer are Rh-negative?
(b) What is the probability that 15 to 20 (inclusive) of the donors are Rh-negative?
(c) What is the probability that more than 80 of the donors are Rh-positive?

8. The daily sales total (excepting Saturday) at a small restaurant has a probability
distribution that is approximately normal, with a mean 𝜇 equal to $1230 per day and a
standard deviation 𝜎 equal to $120.
(a) What is the probability that the sales will exceed $1400 for a given day?
(b) The restaurant must have at least $1000 in sales per day to break even. What is
the probability that on a given day the restaurant will not break even?

9. A soft drink machine can be regulated to discharge an average of 𝜇 ounces per cup. If the ounces
of fill are normally distributed, with standard deviation equal to 0.3 ounce, give the setting for
𝜇 so that 8-ounce cups will overflow only 1% of the time.

10.It is known that 30% of all calls coming into a telephone exchange are long-distance calls. If 200
calls come into the exchange, what is the probability that at least 50 will be long-distance calls?

**Questions marked red must be sent to the demonstrator**

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