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The quartiles of any Normal distribution are about __________ standard deviations from the mean. Give your answer to 3 decimal places.

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Answer:

(1) The first quartile of standard normal distribution is -0.67.

(2) The third quartile of standard normal distribution is 0.67.

(3) The percentage of the observations in the standard normal distribution that are suspected outliers is, 0.74%.

Step-by-step explanation:

A standard normal distribution has mean 0 and variance 1.

(1)

The first quartile of any data is the value below which 25% of the data lie.

That is, P (Z < z) = 0.25.

The value of z is -0.67.

Thus, the first quartile of standard normal distribution is -0.67.

(2)

The third quartile of any data is the value below which 75% of the data lie.

That is, P (Z < z) = 0.75.

The value of z is 0.67.

Thus, the third quartile of standard normal distribution is 0.67.

(3)

In case of a standard normal distribution values lying outside the range

(Q₁ - 1.5 IQR, Q₃ + 1.5 IQR)

are considered as outlier.

Compute the range as follows:

Compute the probability of (Z < -2.68) and P (Z > 2.68) as follows:

The probability of a value being an outlier is,

P (Outlier) = P (Z < -2.68) + P (Z > 2.68)

= 0.0037 + 0.0037

= 0.0074

The percentage of the observations in the standard normal distribution that are suspected outliers is, 0.0074 × 100 = 0.74%.

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