Chapter 6: Q. 6.78 (page 269)
Determine
Short Answer
The score under the usual normal curve with area to the right is around .
Chapter 6: Q. 6.78 (page 269)
Determine
The score under the usual normal curve with area to the right is around .
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31. Mortgage Industry Employees. In an issue of National Mortgage News, a special report was published on publicly traded mortgage industry companies. A sample of mortgage industry companies had the following numbers of employees.
a. Obtain a normal probability plot of the data.
b. Use part (a) to identify any outliers.
c. Use part (a) to assess the normality of the variable under consideration.
The National Center for Health Statistics publishes information about birth rates (per 1000 population) in the document National Vital Statistics Report. The following table provides a frequency distribution for birth rates during one year for the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
a. Obtain a frequency histogram of these birth-rate data.
b. Based on your histogram, do you think that birth rates for the states and the District of Columbia are approximately normally distributed? Explain your answer.
We have provided a normal probability plot of data from a sample of a population. In each case, assess the normality of the variable under consideration.
Verbal GRE Scores. Refer to Problem 28, and fill in the following blanks.
a. Approximately of students who took the verbal portion of the GRE scored between_______and________
b. Approximately of students who took the verbal portion of the GRE scored between_______and________
c. Approximately of students who took the verbal portion of the GRE scored
between_______and________
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