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On a test of optimism, scores of people diagnosed with a particular disease are normally distributed with a mean of 20 and a standard deviation of 5.
What proportion of the scores are between 20 and 25? Between 25 and 30? Below 15?

Respuesta :

[tex]\mathbb P(20<X<25)=\mathbb P\left(\dfrac{20-20}5<\dfrac{X-20}5<\dfrac{25-20}5\right)=\mathbb P(0<Z<1)[/tex]

Since approximately 68% of any normal distribution lies within one standard deviation of the mean, and the distribution is symmetric, it follows that

[tex]\mathbb P(0<Z<1)=\dfrac12\mathbb P(|Z|<1)=\dfrac{0.68}2=0.34[/tex]