Exam 5: The Normal Distribution
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The number of standard deviations that a given raw score is above or below the mean is referred to as a
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.Suppose that a person experienced their first marriage at age 23.If the area beyond the Z score associated with age 23 is 0.24,what proportion of respondents experienced their first marriage before age 23?
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In a normal distribution,there is a constant proportion of the area under the curve lying between the mean and any given distance from the mean and is measured in
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.Calculate the Z score associated with an observed age at first marriage of 25.50 and provide a substantive interpretation of this quantity.
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Suppose that in a particular sample,the mean is 70.07 and the standard deviation is 10.27.What is the Z score for a raw score of 65?
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The normal distribution is central to the theory of ______ statistics.
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.Calculate the observed age at first marriage associated with a Z score of -0.72.
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Scores for an exam are normally distributed with a mean of 235 and a standard deviation of 52.What is the percentile rank of a raw score 287?
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.The Z score associated with the top 5% of the distribution is approximately 1.65.What is the observed age at first marriage associated with this Z score?
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The mean number of siblings for respondents in a survey is 3.76 with a standard deviation of 3.18.The standard normal table reports the following information in the table below.Calculate the percentile rank for three siblings.


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The normal distribution is a ______ and ______ symmetrical distribution with the mean,the median,and the mode all coinciding at its peak and with the frequencies gradually decreasing at both ends of the curve.
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To find proportion of the area under the normal curve between two Z scores,one below the mean and the other above the mean,it is necessary to examine the
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.For a first age at marriage of 33.44,the proportion of area beyond the Z score associated with this age is 0.05 .What is the percentile rank for this score?
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Suppose that the area above some Z score is 0.31,which when multiplied by 100 equals 31%.What is the term for this quantity?
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The mean number of siblings for respondents in a survey is 3.76 with a standard deviation of 3.18.The standard normal table reports the following information in the table below.Calculate the proportion of respondents who had between two and three siblings.


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What percentage of the area under the normal curve falls between ±3 standard deviations?
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.Calculate the Z score associated with an observed age at first marriage of 25.50.
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The mean age at first marriage for respondents in a survey is 23.33,with a standard deviation of 6.13.Suppose that the proportion of area between the mean and two Z scores of ±0.35 is 0.14.Calculate the raw scores associated with these two Z scores.What proportion of respondents were first married between these two ages?
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