Unit 1 – Exploring One Variable Data Name: ________________________

HW 6 – The Standard Normal Curve

1) Scores on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, a standard IQ test, are approximately Normal for the age
group of 20 to 34. The mean score is 110 with a standard deviation of 25. What percent of this age group has an
IQ below 100?

a) Write the inequality using the raw score. b) Find the z-score and rewrite the inequality.

85 ≤ x ≤ 135 60 ≤ x ≤ 160

c) Draw the Normal standardized curve. d) What are you entering into your calculator?

Lower: 60
Upper: 160

Mean (𝞵): 110

Standard Deviation (𝞼): 25

50 70 90 110 130 150 170

21.94%
e) ________% of adults from 20 to 34 have an IQ less than 100.

2) Suppose the systolic blood pressure of an adult male is normally distributed with a mean of 138 mm of
mercury and standard deviation of 10.

If an adult male is picked at random, find the percentage of men whose systolic blood pressure will be

(a) greater than 160 mm (b) between 120 and 135 mm

34.62%
1.43%

(c) less than 110 mm (d) between 130 and 140 mm

.26% 36.74%
 Find the systolic blood pressure for men that represents:
(e) the 90th percentile (f) the bottom 4%

120.49 mm
150.82 mm

3) A special task force of a military unit requires that the recruits not be too tall or too short. Suppose 12% of
the applicants are rejected because they are too tall and 18% because they are too short. If the height of an
applicant is normally distributed with a mean of 69.4 inches and a standard deviation of 3.5 inches, determine
the heights that define whether an applicant is accepted or rejected.

Any applicant with a height greater than approximately 73.5125 inches would be rejected for being too tall, and any applicant
with a height less than approximately 66.215 inches would be rejected for being too short.

4) If z = 1.5, 𝑥̅ = 22, and s = 8.5, what is your “x” 5) If z = -0.55, 𝑥̅ = 13.4, and s = 2, what is your “x”
value? value?

12.3
34.75

6) If you have 20% of your data lying below a z- 7) If you have 34.5% of your data lying above a z-
score, what is that z-score? score, what is that z-score?

-0.4069
-0.8416
 8) If you have 75% of the data lying symmetrically 9) What is the z-score that corresponds to the first
in the middle of your distribution, what are your z- quartile? Third quartile?
scores?

+/- 0.674 0.674

10) A college professor plans to give a test and to curve the results. The raw test scores are normally distributed
with a mean of 58 and a standard deviation of 9. She wants the grades to be divided up as follows:

D C B A
th
50 percentile
Between an A
Bottom 25% or lower before Top 10%
and a C
aD

What will be the raw score averages she gives to each of the letter grades?

A grade: 69.54
B grade: 63.52
C grade: 54.79
D grade: 52.07