The Normal Distribution
MS-S5 is worth about 7 marks out of 100 in recent HSC Mathematics Standard 2 papers. Practise 8 exam-style questions (multiple choice, multi-part, numerical answer) with instant marking and a worked solution for every question.
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Example 1 · 1 mark · multiple choice
A set of data is normally distributed with mean 72 and standard deviation 6. What is the -score of 84?
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Example 2 · 3 marks · multi-part
The lengths of a species of fish are normally distributed with mean 40 cm and standard deviation 5 cm. Use the empirical rule (68%, 95%, 99.7%).
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