Question: Use Excels functions (not @RISK) to generate 1000 random numbers from a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 10. Then freeze these random

Use Excel’s functions (not @RISK) to generate 1000 random numbers from a normal distribution with mean 100 and standard deviation 10. Then freeze these random numbers.

a. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of these random numbers. Are they approximately what you would expect?

b. What fraction of these random numbers are within k standard deviations of the mean? Answer for k = 1; for k = 2; for k = 3. Are the answers close to what they should be (about 68% for k = 1, about 95% for k = 2, and over 99% for k = 3)?

c. Create a histogram of the random numbers using about 10 bins of your choice. Does this histogram have approximately the shape you would expect?

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Normally distributed random numbers Mean 100 Stdev 10 Counter Random number Frozen 1 100386 91637 2 93197 107552 3 122700 115069 4 94838 111496 5 94097 87330 6 95659 103161 7 87878 105418 8 107910 120... View full answer

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