Identifying Regions under Normal Curve

Lesson
Corresponds to Different Standard
5
Normal Values
What’s In
 Perform the indicated operation manually.

1. What is the
Review: difference
between 0.9983
and 0.4531?
2. What is the value
when 1 is subtracted
by 0.3413?
3. What is the result
of 0.0033 subtracted
to 0.4772?
4. What is the

value of 0.5 minus

0.1537?
5. By how much
1 is greater than
to 0.2318?
What’s New
A. The following numbers are the numbers found at the left side and
upper part of the table. Identify the number that lies on the
intersection between the given set of numbers. Use the Table of
the Area Under Normal Curve indicated at the last page of this
module.

1. -1.6 and 0.09 = ________

2. 1.0 and 0.07 = _________
3. 1.1 and 0.06 = _________
4. 0.5 and 0.08 = _________
5. 1.0 and 0.00 = _________
A. Perform the indicated
operation. Write your
answer inside each box
connected to the shaded
region of the following
normal curve.
What is It
 In the previous lesson , we discussed the properties of the normal probability

Figure 1: Standard
distribution, and one of the things that you have learned is that the total area
under the curve is equal to one. Since the standard normal distribution is
defined as normally distributed random variable having a mean of zero ( µ= 0 )

Normal Curve
and standard deviation of one (ơ = 1), the fifty (50) percent of the region under
the curve is below the mean and the other 50% is above the mean, as shown
in the illustration below at Figure 1.
 How to use the Table of Areas under the Normal Curve?

Example: Find the area to the left of -1.69

Solution: First, split the given z-value into hundredths. We
can find the whole number and the tenths digit (-1.6) at the
left side of the table while the hundredths (0.09) are located at
the uppermost of the table. Then the intersection of these
numbers will be the area of the normal curve to the left of the
z-value.
Answer: The area to the left of
z= -1.69 is 0.0455.
STEPS IN FINDING
THE AREA THAT
CORRESPONDS TO
Z –VALUE
1.Draw/sketch a normal
curve and locate the
given z-value on the
normal curve
2. Shade the
region of the
curve according
to the condition
of z-value
whether it is
below, above, or
between.
3. Use the
table of the
area under the
normal curve
to find the
corresponding
area.
4. Choose the
appropriate
operation
based on
steps 2 and 3.
Label the
shaded
region and
draw a
conclusion
Example 1: Find
the area that
corresponds
below z = -1.35

Solution:

Step 1. Draw/sketch a
normal curve and locate the
given z-value.
 Step 2. Shade the
region of the curve
according to the
condition of z-value
whether it is
below, above, or between.
Step 3. Use the
table of the area
under the normal
curve to find the

corresponding area

The intersection between -1.3 and 0.05 is 0.0885

 • When the z value is to the left
or any related terms (e.g.
below, less than) just write the
value we obtained in step 3
Step 4.
Choose the • Since the shaded region of
appropriate the curve is to the left of the
z= -1.35 and the
operation intersection between -1.3
and 0.05 is 0.0885.
based on Therefore, the area of the
steps 2 and 3 shaded region is 0.0885
 Step 5. Label
the shaded
region and draw
a conclusion.

Therefore, the area that

corresponds below z = -1.35
is 0.0885.
 Example 2:
Find the area
to the right
of z = -1.35