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The Normal Distribution

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Question 37

The heights of adult males in a particular city are normally distributed with a mean of 175 cm and a standard deviation of 7 cm.

Find the height below which 80% of these adult males fall. Give your answer to the nearest cm.

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The Normal Distribution Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Maths
  3. /The Normal Distribution

591 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Maths The Normal Distribution, covering 3.1 The Normal Distribution, 3.2 Finding Probabilities for Normal Distributions, 3.3 The Inverse Normal Distribution Function, 3.4 The Standard Normal Distribution, 3.5 Finding the mean and standard deviation, 3.6 Approximating a Binomial Distribution, and 3.7 Hypothesis Testing with the Normal Distribution. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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