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Ok, I know this problem is below everything on this forum, but I am an English major with no math skills and I'm REALLY stuck.
This question is as follows:
1)Assume that the number of items borrowed per person per year in a library
is normally distributed with a mean of 87 and a standard deviation of 4.
These values describe the distribution of borrowing for the entire
population of users in this library.
a) What is the mode for this distribution?
b) What is the median of this distribution?
c) Roughly sketch the distribution. Place the number of items borrowed on
the x-axis and the number of individuals on the y axis. Indicate the
location and values of the mean and the +two and +three standard deviations
on the x axis.
d)What percent of the population borrow between 83 and 91 items per year?
e) What percent of the population borrow between 79 and 95 items per year?
f) What percent of the population borrow more than 95 items per year?
Work I've done:
Not much. I'm having trouble knowing how to get started on the equation. I don't
understand how having only the mean (87) and the standard deviation (4) is
enough information to let me figure out the mode and median. It doesn't
make sense to me.
I know how to get the standard deviation from the mean when I have all of
the data points, but there are no data points given in this problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!
This question is as follows:
1)Assume that the number of items borrowed per person per year in a library
is normally distributed with a mean of 87 and a standard deviation of 4.
These values describe the distribution of borrowing for the entire
population of users in this library.
a) What is the mode for this distribution?
b) What is the median of this distribution?
c) Roughly sketch the distribution. Place the number of items borrowed on
the x-axis and the number of individuals on the y axis. Indicate the
location and values of the mean and the +two and +three standard deviations
on the x axis.
d)What percent of the population borrow between 83 and 91 items per year?
e) What percent of the population borrow between 79 and 95 items per year?
f) What percent of the population borrow more than 95 items per year?
Work I've done:
Not much. I'm having trouble knowing how to get started on the equation. I don't
understand how having only the mean (87) and the standard deviation (4) is
enough information to let me figure out the mode and median. It doesn't
make sense to me.
I know how to get the standard deviation from the mean when I have all of
the data points, but there are no data points given in this problem.
Any help would be much appreciated!