This is a site Ms. Erwin and I found for finding random numbers using a normal distribution, in case your calculator does not do randNorm. It will take a little working with, but it is nice.
Enter in your mean, your standard deviation, and choose 100 trials. Make sure to click Y for displaying results in a table.
When I get home I will look at random.org, which I think has to have some kind of normal distribution generator.
http://www.wessa.net/rwasp_rngnorm.wasp
Amended:
random.org does have a normal distribution random number generator, which worked nice. The problem I had with it was that it produced the answers in scientific notation, which is easy to get around.
I finally read the internet and figured out how to use Excel to serve this purpose, and it was beautiful. I will provide a link to an example I did in 1st block in another post.
The command is NORMINV(RAND( ), mean, standard deviation). It works beautifully and saves lots of time.
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