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    PSYC315 Lesson5 Excel Problems

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    This document contains 11 questions about calculating probabilities and proportions for various normally distributed populations. The questions ask the reader to use Excel to calculate things like the proportion of means falling below or between certain values for different sample sizes, or the exact probability of a sample mean falling above or below a value. The answers provided are the calculations for each question rounded to four decimal places.

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    PSYC315 Lesson5 Excel Problems

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    This document contains 11 questions about calculating probabilities and proportions for various normally distributed populations. The questions ask the reader to use Excel to calculate things like the proportion of means falling below or between certain values for different sample sizes, or the exact probability of a sample mean falling above or below a value. The answers provided are the calculations for each question rounded to four decimal places.

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    This document contains 11 questions about calculating probabilities and proportions for various normally distributed populations. The questions ask the reader to use Excel to calculate things like the proportion of means falling below or between certain values for different sample sizes, or the exact probability of a sample mean falling above or below a value. The answers provided are the calculations for each question rounded to four decimal places.

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    PSYC315 Lesson5 Excel Problems

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    Lesson 5

    Questions
    Use Excel to answer the following questions and give all answers to four decimal places.

    1. If a normally distributed population has a mean of 50 and standard deviation of 12, then
    what proportion of the distribution of means falls below 56 when sample size is n = 16?

    2. If a normally distributed population has a mean of 82 and standard deviation of 11.3, then
    what proportion of the distribution of means falls below 91.6 when sample size is n = 4?

    3. If a right skewed distribution has a mean of 200 and standard deviation of 32, then what
    proportion of the distribution of means falls below 206.2 when sample size is n = 64?

    4. If a leptokurtic distribution has a mean of 1 and standard deviation of .35, then what pro-
    portion of the distribution of means falls between .98 and 1.11 when sample size is n = 49?

    5. If a left skewed and platykurtic distribution has a mean of 99 and standard deviation of 18,
    then what proportion of the distribution of means falls between 97 and 98 when sample size
    is n = 81?

    6. If a normal distribution has a mean of 16 and standard deviation of 2, then what proportion
    of the distribution of means falls between 15 and 18 when sample size is n = 2?

    7. If a normal distribution has a mean of 800 and standard deviation of .1, then what propor-
    tion of the distribution of means falls between 800.01 and 800.02 when sample size is n = 25?

    8. What is the exact probability of drawing a random sample from a normal distribution with
    ! = 102 and σ = 15 and finding that the sample mean is:

    (a) 99 or less if sample size n = 100.

    (b) 98 or less if sample size n = 25.

    (c) 102 or less if sample size n = 100.

    (d) 102 or less if sample size n = 25.

    (e) 104 or less if sample size n = 25.

    9. What is the exact probability of drawing a random sample from a normal distribution with
    ! = 102 and σ = 15 and finding that the sample mean is:

    (a) 99 or greater if sample size n = 100.

    (b) 98 or greater if sample size n = 25.

    (c) 102 or greater if sample size n = 100.

    (d) 102 or greater if sample size n = 25.

    (e) 104 or greater if sample size n = 25.


    10. A sample was 2500 scores was drawn from a normal distribution with ! = 100 and σ = 10.
    What was the sample mean if

    (a) exactly 2% of the distribution of means falls below it.

    (b) exactly 16% of the distribution of means falls below it.

    (c) exactly 84% of the distribution of means falls below it.

    (d) exactly 98% of the distribution of means falls above it.

    (e) exactly 2% of the distribution of means falls above it.

    (f) exactly 16% of the distribution of means falls above it.

    11. Assume that scores on a measure of narcissism are normally distributed with a mean of ! =
    8 and standard deviation of σ = 4. What two sample means enclose the central (1– α)100% of
    the distribution of means

    (a) When sample size is n = 64 and α = .05?

    (b) When sample size is n = 16 and α = .0164?

    (c) When sample size is n = 256 and α = .1212?

    (d) When sample size is n = 25 and α = .025?

    (e) When sample size is n = 64 and α = .303?


    Answers
    Answer are given in bold type.
    1. .9772

    2. .9554

    3. .9394

    4. .6415

    5. .1499

    6. .6816

    7. .1499

    8. A normal distribution with ! = 102 and σ = 15. (Probability below)

    (a) .0228

    (b) .0912

    (c) .5000

    (d) .5000

    (e) .7475

    9. A normal distribution with ! = 102 and σ = 15. (Probability above)

    (a) .9772

    (b) .9088

    (c) .5000

    (d) .5000

    (e) .2525

    10. A sample was 2500 scores was drawn from a normal distribution with ! = 100 and σ = 10.
    (Scores)

    (a) 99.5893

    (b) 99.8011

    (c) 100.1989

    (d) 99.5893

    (e) 100.4107

    (f) 100.1989
    11. Narcissism scores are normally distributed with a mean of ! = 8 and standard deviation of σ
    = 4. Central (1– α)100% intervals.

    (a) [7.0200, 8.9800]

    (b) [5.6001, 10.3999]

    (c) [7.6126, 8.3874]

    (d) [6.2069, 9.7931]

    (e) [7.4850, 8.5150]

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