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What shape is a normal distribution curve?

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Bell curve

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What is the probability that exactly 2 of the first 20 blood donors have Type B blood if 11% of the U.S. population has Type B blood?

Back

0.282

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What percent of students in a course at UCDavis have a GPA between 2.9 and 3.8 if the mean GPA is 3.2 and the standard deviation is 0.3?

Back

81.5%

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What proportion of weeks would you expect to have more than 7 accidents if the mean number of accidents a week at a company is 6.4 with a standard deviation of 1.5?

Back

0.3446

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Using the Empirical Rule, how many of the 500 golf members at the Mathy Country Club are younger than 34 if the ages of golfers are normally distributed with a mean of 38 and a standard deviation of 4?

Back

80

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What is the Empirical Rule in statistics?

Back

The Empirical Rule states that for a normal distribution, approximately 68% of the data falls within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two standard deviations, and 99.7% within three standard deviations.

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Define 'mean' in the context of probability distributions.

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The mean is the average value of a set of numbers, calculated by summing all values and dividing by the number of values.

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What is a standard deviation?

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Standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values.

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What does it mean if a distribution is skewed?

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A skewed distribution is one where the data points are not symmetrically distributed around the mean, leading to a longer tail on one side.

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What is a binomial distribution?

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A binomial distribution is a probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent outcomes.