Lesson 5

Questions
Use Excel to answer the following questions and give all answers to four decimal places.

1. If a normally distributed population has a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 12, then
what proportion of the distribution of means falls below 56 when sample size is n = 16?

2. If a normally distributed population has a mean of 82 and standard deviation of 11.3, then
what proportion of the distribution of means falls below 91.6 when sample size is n = 4?

3. If a right skewed distribution has a mean of 200 and standard deviation of 32, then what
proportion of the distribution of means falls below 206.2 when sample size is n = 64?

4. If a leptokurtic distribution has a mean of 1 and standard deviation of .35, then what pro-
portion of the distribution of means falls between .98 and 1.11 when sample size is n = 49?

5. If a left skewed and platykurtic distribution has a mean of 99 and standard deviation of 18,
then what proportion of the distribution of means falls between 97 and 98 when sample size
is n = 81?

6. If a normal distribution has a mean of 16 and standard deviation of 2, then what proportion
of the distribution of means falls between 15 and 18 when sample size is n = 2?

7. If a normal distribution has a mean of 800 and standard deviation of .1, then what propor-
tion of the distribution of means falls between 800.01 and 800.02 when sample size is n = 25?

8. What is the exact probability of drawing a random sample from a normal distribution with
! = 102 and σ = 15 and finding that the sample mean is:

(a) 99 or less if sample size n = 100.

(b) 98 or less if sample size n = 25.

(c) 102 or less if sample size n = 100.

(d) 102 or less if sample size n = 25.

(e) 104 or less if sample size n = 25.

9. What is the exact probability of drawing a random sample from a normal distribution with
! = 102 and σ = 15 and finding that the sample mean is:

(a) 99 or greater if sample size n = 100.

(b) 98 or greater if sample size n = 25.

(c) 102 or greater if sample size n = 100.

(d) 102 or greater if sample size n = 25.

(e) 104 or greater if sample size n = 25.

10. A sample was 2500 scores was drawn from a normal distribution with ! = 100 and σ = 10.
What was the sample mean if

(a) exactly 2% of the distribution of means falls below it.

(b) exactly 16% of the distribution of means falls below it.

(c) exactly 84% of the distribution of means falls below it.

(d) exactly 98% of the distribution of means falls above it.

(e) exactly 2% of the distribution of means falls above it.

(f) exactly 16% of the distribution of means falls above it.

11. Assume that scores on a measure of narcissism are normally distributed with a mean of ! =
8 and standard deviation of σ = 4. What two sample means enclose the central (1– α)100% of
the distribution of means

(a) When sample size is n = 64 and α = .05?

(b) When sample size is n = 16 and α = .0164?

(c) When sample size is n = 256 and α = .1212?

(d) When sample size is n = 25 and α = .025?

(e) When sample size is n = 64 and α = .303?

Answers
Answer are given in bold type.
1. .9772

2. .9554

3. .9394

4. .6415

5. .1499

6. .6816

7. .1499

8. A normal distribution with ! = 102 and σ = 15. (Probability below)

(a) .0228

(b) .0912

(c) .5000

(d) .5000

(e) .7475

9. A normal distribution with ! = 102 and σ = 15. (Probability above)

(a) .9772

(b) .9088

(c) .5000

(d) .5000

(e) .2525

10. A sample was 2500 scores was drawn from a normal distribution with ! = 100 and σ = 10.
(Scores)

(a) 99.5893

(b) 99.8011

(c) 100.1989

(d) 99.5893

(e) 100.4107

(f) 100.1989
11. Narcissism scores are normally distributed with a mean of ! = 8 and standard deviation of σ
= 4. Central (1– α)100% intervals.

(a) [7.0200, 8.9800]

(b) [5.6001, 10.3999]

(c) [7.6126, 8.3874]

(d) [6.2069, 9.7931]

(e) [7.4850, 8.5150]