Active Learning Lecture Slides For use with Classroom Response Systems Probability Distributions
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.1 All students in a class were asked how many times they had read the city newspaper in the past 5 days. The data is in the chart below. What proportion read the newspaper more than 3 times in the past 5 days? a) 0.1 b) 0.5 c) 0.6 d) 1.0 e) None of the above No. Times Read Newspaper Probability
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.1 All students in a class were asked how many times they had read the city newspaper in the past 5 days. The data is in the chart below. What proportion read the newspaper more than 3 times in the past 5 days? a) 0.1 b) 0.5 c) 0.6 d) 1.0 e) None of the above No. Times Read Newspaper Probability
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.6 Which of the following is NOT a property of the normal distribution? a) It is symmetric. b) It is bell-shaped. c) It is centered at the mean, 0. d) It has a standard deviation,. e) All of the above are correct.
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.6 Which of the following is NOT a property of the normal distribution? a) It is symmetric. b) It is bell-shaped. c) It is centered at the mean, 0. d) It has a standard deviation,. e) All of the above are correct.
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.7 Scores on the verbal section of the SAT have a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Scores are approximately normally distributed. What proportion of SAT scores are higher than 450? a) 0.5 b) c) d) e)
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.7 Scores on the verbal section of the SAT have a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Scores are approximately normally distributed. What proportion of SAT scores are higher than 450? a) 0.5 b) c) d) e)
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.8 Scores on the verbal section of the SAT have a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Scores are approximately normally distributed. If someone scored at the 90 th percentile, what is their SAT score? a) 608 b) 618 c) 628 d) 638 e) 648
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.8 Scores on the verbal section of the SAT have a mean of 500 and a standard deviation of 100. Scores are approximately normally distributed. If someone scored at the 90 th percentile, what is their SAT score? a) 608 b) 618 c) 628 d) 638 e) 648
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.9 What is the standard normal distribution? a) b) c) d) e)
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. 6.9 What is the standard normal distribution? a) b) c) d) e)
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc There are two sections of Intro Statistics and they both gave an exam on the same material. Suppose that Megan made an 83 in 2 nd period and Jose made an 85 in 3 rd period. Using the information below. Who scored relatively higher with respect to their own period? 2 nd period3 rd period Mean8082 Standard Deviation56 a) Jose b) Megan c) They are the same d) Cannot be determined
Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc There are two sections of Intro Statistics and they both gave an exam on the same material. Suppose that Megan made an 83 in 2 nd period and Jose made an 85 in 3 rd period. Using the information below. Who scored relatively higher with respect to their own period? 2 nd period3 rd period Mean8082 Standard Deviation56 a) Jose b) Megan c) They are the same d) Cannot be determined