UNDERSTANDING THE

NOMAL CURVE
DISTRIBUTION
MR. AARON PAUL A. CASABAR
Lesson Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:

1. understand the concept of the normal curve

distribution;
2. state and illustrate the properties of a normal
curve distribution;
3. sketch the graph of a normal distribution; and
4. recognize the importance of the normal curve in
statistical inference.
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PROPERTIES OF THE NORMAL
CURVE DISTRIBUTION
The distribution curve is bell-shaped.
The curve is symmetrical about its center.
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The mean, the median, and the mode coincide at the
center. Or simply they are equal.
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 Median = 5
122333344444445555555555566666667777889

Mode = 5
Since mode can be determine by
the highest frequency of the data
Mean = 5
 
1+4+12+28+55+42+28+16+9  195
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The width of the curve is determined by
the standard deviation of the distribution.

Z-score
The tails of the curve flatten out indefinitely along the
horizontal axis, always approaching the axis but never
touching it. That is, the curve is asymptotic to the base line.
The total area under the normal curve
above the x-axis = 1 or 100%
 The standard Normal Curve

 
A standard normal
curve is a normal
probability distribution
that has a mean and a
standard deviation
 
The Table of Areas under the Normal Curve is
also known as the z-Table.
The z- score is a measure of relative standing. It is
calculated by subtracting (or μ) from the measurement
X and then dividing the result by s (or σ).
The final result, the z-score, represents the distance
between a given measurement X and the mean,
expressed in standard deviations.
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Find thearea
areathat
thatcorresponds
correspondsto
tozz==11from
fromthe
themean.
mean. From the mean,
and this is your
mean

This is the area you

need to find.

To z=1, and this is

your z=1
Find the area that corresponds to z = 1 from the mean.
Find the area that corresponds to z = 1.30 from the
mean

Z=1.30

Z=1.30

0.4032
Find the area that corresponds to z = -1.25 from the From the mean,
mean And this is the area and this is your
is equal to This
meanarea

Note: Let us recall the

properties of normal curve
distribution. “the curve is This is the area you
symmetric about its need to find.
center” that means the
area from the mean to z=-
1.25 is equal to the area
from the mean to z=1.25

To z=-1.25, and this is

So that means you just need to find the area from the mean to
your z=-1.25
z=1.25, and you have the area from the mean to z=-1.25
Find the area that corresponds to z = -1.25 from the
mean

Z=1.25

Z=1.25

0.3944
.25
Since the area from the mean to z=1.25 is 0.3944,
Therefore the area from the mean to z=-1.25 is also
0.3944.

Because, the area from the mean to z=1.25 is equal to the

are from the mean to z=-1.25, since normal curve
distribution is symmetric about its center.