which of thee following types of data are likely to be normally distributed?.. Check all that apply…
A. The number of times Americans have been struck by lightening.
B. The outcome of rolling a single fair die.
C.The time it takes for a kernel of popcorn to pop.
D.The time it takes for an airliner to fly from Los Angeles to New York.
E. The distance of an archers shot from the center of a target.
Answer:
I would say C, D, and E.
A is going to have a huge peak at zero with a descending tail (a few people struck once, even fewer struck twice, even fewer three times and so on). B is even across all outcomes because it specifies a fair die.
C, D, and E should each have a range of values that cover most occurrences with outlying values that decrease in number as they move further away from the dominant value range, which is the definition of a normal distribution.