TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering
Sample Problems for Normal Probability Distribution

1. A tech store sells computers of several types. For certain types, the length of time between charges
of the battery is normally distributed with a mean of 50hr and a standard deviation of 15hr.

a. A customer bought one of these computers and wanted to know the probability of the
computer battery lasting for less than 45hr.
 = 50
 = 15

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

b. A customer bought one of these computers and wanted to know the probability of the
computer battery lasting between 45hr and 65hr.
 = 50
 = 15

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

a. A customer bought one of these computers and wanted to know the probability of the
computer battery lasting more than 70hr.
 = 50
 = 15

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

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2. A breeder of golden retriever has 3 pregnant dams, which have all given birth within a week. After 3
months, he weighed the puppies and listed figured out that the average of their weight is 20lbs, with
a standard deviation of 6.

a. What is the probability of a puppy weighing more than 23lbs?

 = 20
=6

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

b. What is the probability of a puppy weighing less than 18lbs?

 = 20
=6

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

c. What is the probability of a puppy weighing between than 18lbs and 25lbs?
 = 20
=6

P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
P = ________

a. What is the probability of a puppy weighing between than 22lbs and 25lbs?
 = 20
=6

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P(___________)
z = __________
Area = ________
3. Find the value of x with the following z values
a. The monthly utility bills in a city are b.
normally distributed with a mean,
$70 and a standard deviation of
$8. At least how much is the utility
bill, x that corresponds to the z-
score of -0.75.
c. How high must an individual score
on Statistics in order to be in the
right region of z = 1.64 given that
the scores are normally distributed
with a mean of 527 and a standard
deviation of 112?
4. Find the z value with the following probability.
a. P(Z>?) = 93.70%
z=______
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P = ________
Mario has a ranch of horses that
are trained to race. Their recorded
speed is normally distributed with
the mean, 40 and standard
deviation, 5. One of the horses
should have a speed of at least x if
it corresponds to the z-score of 2.
What is x?
d. The value of x if the population
mean is 5, standard deviation of 2,
and z=1.25.
b. P(Z>?) = 77%
z=______
 c. P(Z<?) = 0.41% d. P(Z>?) = 86%

z=______ z=______

5. Find the probability with the following z-score

a. P(z>-1.99) b. P(z>2.43)

P=____________
P=____________

c. P(z<2.36) d. P(z<1.96)

P=____________
P=____________

6. Find x with the following probabilities, mean, and standard deviation

a. P(X<?) = 73% b. P(X<?) = 94.95%
 = 154;  = 12  = 120;  = 18

X=____________ X=____________

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7. The length of human pregnancies from conception to birth approximates a normal
distribution with a mean of 266 days and a standard deviation of 16 days. What
proportion of all pregnancies will last between 240 and 270 days (roughly between 8
and 9 months)?

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8. What length of time marks the first 70% of
all pregnancies?

9. The average number of acres burned by forest and range fires in a large New Mexico county is
4,300 acres per year, with a standard deviation of 750 acres. The distribution of the number of
acres burned is normal. What is the probability that between 2,500 and 4,200 acres will be
burned in any given year?

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