The Normal distributionEdexcel International A Level Maths: Mind map
Shape
Notation
Standardising
Normal distribution
N(mu, sigma squared)
bell shapesymmetricZ tables
Probabilities
Inverse problems
Unknown mu and sigma
Exam questions on The Normal distribution
- The mass of an egg, grams, is Normally distributed with mean 60 and standard deviation 4.Find the probability that an egg has a mass between 54 g and 66 g.2 marks
- The time, minutes, taken by a bus to complete its route is Normally distributed with .Find the value of such that .2 marks
- The heights of adult women in a population are Normally distributed with mean 164 cm and standard deviation 6 cm.Find the probability that a randomly chosen woman has a height between 158 cm and 173 cm.3 marks
Written by the Exaim team, led by Shaun Daswani (Head of Upper Secondary, Improve ME Institute; MSc Financial Mathematics, Imperial College London; BSc, UCL) and Jason Daswani (operational lead, Improve ME Institute; LSE).