Standard Deviation and Spread

The shelf life of a particular dairy product is normally distributed with a mean of 12 days and a standard deviation of 3 days.

About what percent of the products last between 12 and 15 days?

• 68%

• 34%

• 16%

• 2.5%

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, what percentage of scores are above 82?

• 34%

• 81.5%

• 16%

• 2.5%

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, how many students out of 500 would score between 68 and 82

• 11

• 2

• 340

• 498

Given a mean of 75 and a standard deviation of 7, how many students out of 500 would score higher than 68?

• 11

• 12

• 420

• 250

The mean life of a tire is 30,000 km. The standard deviation is 2000 km.

Then, 68% of all tires will have a life between ___________ km and __________ km.

•  28,000 km and 32,000 km.

• 24,000 km and 34,000 km.

• 26,000 km and 34,000 km.

• 27,000 km and 31,000 km.

The distribution of heights of adult American men is approximately Normal with mean 69 inches and standard deviation 2.5 inches. What percent of men are between 64 and 66.5 inches tall? 

• 50%

• 2.5%

• 13.5%

• 34%

At a local high school, GPA's are normally distributed with a mean of 2.9 and standard deviation of 0.6. What percentage of students at the high school have a GPA between 2.3 and 3.5?

• 68%

• 99.7%

• 95%

• 84%

Given that the data is symmetric, which pair of measures should be used to represent the data?

• center: median

  spread: standard deviation

• center: mean

  spread: IQR

• center: mean

  spread: standard deviation

• center: median

  spread: IQR

Which measure of spread should be used to describe the distribution?

• standard deviation

• interquartile range

• range

• median

The dot plots show the gas mileage, in miles per gallon, for several cars and SUV's. Which type of vehicle has a larger spread?

• cars

• SUVs