How Tall Are You?

Using Height to Determine the

Normal Curve... Commented [1]: Nice work Haylee. With the end of
the quarter, I'm going to give you a grade based on the
In Chapter 7, we learned about normal curves, z scores, empirical rule and how work you completed on your own. I apologize for you
not having a contributing partner, and will grade
to calculate each. With a normal curve, the curve is bell shaped and the highest point is accordingly. 45/50
over the mean,𝜇. The transition points going upward and downward occur above 𝜇 + 𝜎
and 𝜇-𝜎, the area under the bell curve should be 1. To gather the data for this project,
we used Google Forms and only got around 35 responses, we used the simple random
sample method, which means we took a small portion of the entire population of Fowler
to understand the average height.
Using the Pearson’s Index we (skewness coef: 3x(mean-median)/𝜎) and checked
for skewness, we got the number 0.7994. In 7-1, we also learned of the Empirical rule,
approximately 68% of the data values will lie within 1 standard deviation of the mean on
either side. 95% of the data will lie within 2 data values on either side, and 99.7% will lie
within 3 standard deviations on either side. In my set of data, the numbers were: 68%
between 61.305 and 71.315, 95% between 56.00 and 76.320 and 99.7% between
51.295 and 81.32. Depending on which percentage I needed, there were three different
equations I could use. For 68%, it was 𝜇-𝜎and 𝜇+𝜎. For 95%, it was 𝜇-2𝜎 and 𝜇+2𝜎 and
finally for 99.7%: 𝜇-3𝜎and 𝜇+3𝜎.
 Next I needed to calculate the z-score, which tells us the number of standard
deviations between the original # and the mean. The formula is z= (x-𝜇)/𝜎, and my result
was -0.86114. For this project, I found the five number summary, which is basically just
a series of numbers explaining how the numbers lie. For the minimum number it was
57, the max was 77 and the median was 65. The Quartile 1 was 62, while Quartile 3,
69.5. The mean for this series of numbers was 66.31, meaning my height (63), was
below that.
The histogram does show that the minority of the numbers is within the 75 to 80
inch range, and the majority is within the 65 to 70 range, which correlates with our 5
number summary.
Due to the fact I was the only person in this group, I was unable to do
certain calculations.

I still don’t have the 3% above and below, but everyone I’ve talked to had no idea
on how to do it…