Module #5 Hand In Assignment

1. The results for the final exam were normally distributed with a standard deviation of 10 and a
mean of 65%.
a. If an A grade is 80 and above what percent of students received an A?
b. What is the probability of a randomly selected student failing (a fail grade is anything below 50).
c. If there are 45 students how many would fail?
d. A student tells you they scored in the top 10% of the class. What is the minimum grade they
achieved?
e. The instructor would like to reduce the percentage of failures to 5%. He proposed to do this by
eliminating some of the easier and some of the more difficult questions. He expects the same
average but a lower standard deviation. What standard deviation would he need to reach his
objective?

2. The Duff Brewery packages ice beer in attractive aluminium cans. The cans contain an average
volume of s341.4 ml of beer and a standard deviation of 5 ml. The distribution is normal.
a. What percentage of cans have more than 350 ml of beer?
b. A day of production resulted in 1,281 cans with more than 350 ml of beer. How many beers
were produced that day?
c. Duff would like to label the cans so that only 10% of the cans would contain less than labelled
volume. What volume should Duff put on the labels?

3. A local theatre knows that the average spending from a movie patron is $12.50 with a Standard
deviation of $2.50. The distribution of spending is normal.
a. What is the probability a randomly selected patron will spend more than $16.75?
b. What is the probability a randomly selected patron will spend between $8.75 and $11.25.
c. The company is thinking of offering a promotion and giving a free storm trooper T-shirt to the
10% of customers who spend the most. What is the minimum amount of spending required to
receive a storm trooper T-shirt?
d. The company is planning a price increase. At the new price they would like 90% of customers
to spend at least $10.00. What new average amount of spending would achieve this if we
assume that standard deviation remains the same. (4 marks)