Practice with Normcdf & InvNorm

A set of shirt prices are normally distributed with a mean of 45 dollars and a standard deviation of 5 dollars.

What proportion of shirt prices are between 37 dollars and 59.35 dollars?

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

A set of chemistry exam scores are normally distributed with a mean of 70 points and a standard deviation of 5 points.

What proportion of exam scores are between 68 and 73 points?

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

A set of sofa prices are normally distributed with a mean of 2500 dollars and a standard deviation of 200 dollars. A leather sofa has a price of 2410 dollars.

What proportion of sofa prices are higher than the price of the leather sofa?

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

A set of chemistry exam scores are normally distributed with a mean of 70 points and standard deviation of 4 points. Cam got a score of 65 points on the exam.

What proportion of exam scores are higher than Cam's score?

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

A set of biology exam scores are normally distributed with a mean of 60 points and a standard deviation of 6 points. Annie got a score of 51 points on the exam.

What proportion of exam scores are lower than Annie's score?

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

A set of middle school student heights are normally distributed with a mean of 150cm and a standard deviation of 20cm. Ian is a middle school student with a height of 165cm.

What proportion of student heights are lower than Ian's height?

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CCSS.HSF-LE.A.1B

The distribution of waist circumferences of US adult men randomly selected for a research study was approximately normal with a mean of 94cm and a standard deviation of 11cm.

A clothing store that specializes in serving larger men aims to sell clothing that will fit men with the top 35% of waist circumferences.

What is the minimum waist circumference of men whom the store aims to serve? (Round to the nearest whole number.)

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

The distribution of reading scores in the 4th grade at Truman Elementary was approximately normal with a mean of 221 and standard deviation of 36.

All students whose reading score is in the top 10% get to go to a party at the end of the semester.

What is the cut-off score for the top 10%? (Round to the nearest whole number.)

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4

The distribution of sales for a store's employees was approximately normal with a mean of $2,000 and a standard deviation of $150.

The employees who are in the lower 5% of sales are getting fired.

How much sales must the employee do in order to not get fired? (Round to the nearest whole number.)

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CCSS.HSS.ID.A.4