Sunday, March 31, 2013

IB Maths HL - Normal Distribution

How can we find the mean
of the weight of a population of students which is found to be normally distributed with standard deviation 2 Kg and the 30% of the students weigh at least 53 Kg.

The answer is from www.ibmaths4u.com

Let the random variable W denote the weight of the students, so that



We know that

Since we don’t know the mean, we cannot use the inverse normal. Therefore we have to transform the random variable to that of

, using the transformation

we have the following





Using GDC Casio fx-9860G SD
MAIN MENU > STAT>DIST(F5)>NORM(F1)>InvN>

Setting Tail: right
Area: 0.1
:1
:0

We find that the standardized value is 0.5244

Therefore


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