SAT scores (out of 1600) are distributed normally with a mean of 1100 and a standard deviation of 200. Suppose a school council awards a certificate of excellence to all students who score at least 1350 on the SAT, and suppose we pick one of the recognized students at random. What is the probability this student’s score will be at least 1500?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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SAT scores (out of 1600) are distributed normally with a mean of 1100 and a standard deviation of 200. Suppose
a school council awards a certificate of excellence to all students who score at least 1350 on the SAT, and suppose
we pick one of the recognized students at random.
What is the probability this student’s score will be at least
1500?
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