Can someone explain to me the rules of distribution. I have a word problem which asks my opinion of applying distribution to each problem but I don't completely understand distribution and when it is applied and when it isn't.

Answer 1

a. The wealth of the parents of students attending your
school
b. The values that a group of fourth-grade students
would give for the length of a segment that they
measured with a ruler
c. The SAT or ACT examination scores in mathematics
for students who were in your high school
graduation class
d. The weights of all incoming freshman students at
your school

What I know about normal distribution is that it has to do with the bell curve. I am supposed to answer which ones are and are not normally distributed. How am I supposed to do that without the variables, such as the mean, sd, etc?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Oh okay, thank you!

Answer 4

Well, you can have normal distribution, binomial distribution, and uniform distribution

I would bet all are normal distribution

Answer 5

Thank you Bobpursley!