The quantile or probit function, as you can see from the link (see "Computatuon"), is computed with inverse gaussian error function which I hope is downloadable for calculators like TI-89. Look here for instance.

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September 27, 2021 - You can use the following formulas to find the first (Q1) and third (Q3) quartiles of a normally distributed dataset: Q1 = μ - (.675)σ Q3 = μ + (.675)σ
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It is readily calculated that for the standard normal distribution the first quartile is -.67 (using .2514 for .25) and the third quartile is .67.
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Answer (1 of 2): You will need either a calculator which can calculate a normal distribution or a table of the normal distribution. I am using the table at Standard Normal Distribution Table Then you have to do a backward lookup of 0.25. In other words, find numbers as close as you can to 0.25 i...
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... $\begingroup$ The quartile is not where x= 1/4 but where $N(x;\mu, k^2)= 1/4$. You need to use a table of the normal distribution to find x such that $\Phi\left(\frac{x-2}{9}\right)= 0.25$. And then, of course, "= 0.50" and "= 0.75".
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April 8, 2023 - Let X be a random variable that follows the normal distribution with mean μ and variance σ2. The quartiles of the normal distribution refer to those values of the random variable which divide the area under the probability distribution curve into exactly four equal parts.
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The answer is No, not exactly anyhow.

If you have two quartiles of a normal population then you can find $\mu$ and $\sigma.$ For example the lower and upper quantiles of $\mathsf{Norm}(\mu = 100,\, \sigma = 10)$ are $93.255$ and $106.745,$ respectively.

qnorm(c(.25, .75), 100, 10)
 [1]  93.2551 106.7449

Then $P\left(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma} < -0.6745\right) = 0.25$ and $P\left(\frac{X-\mu}{\sigma} < 0.6745\right) = 0.75$ provide two equations that can be solved to find $\mu$ and $\sigma.$

qnorm(c(.25,.75))
[1] -0.6744898  0.6744898

However, sample quartiles are not population quartiles. There is not enough information in any normal sample precisely to determine $\mu$ and $\sigma.$

And you are not really sure your sample is from a normal population. If the population has mean $\mu$ and median $\eta,$ then the sample mean and median, respectively, are estimates of these two parameters. If the population is symmetrical, then $\mu = \eta,$ but you say the sample mean and median do not agree. So you cannot be sure the population is symmetrical, much less normal.

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Based on @whuber's Comments about 'modeling', I gave some thought to relatively elementary methods that might be used to estimate the parameters of a normal distribution given the sample size, sample quartiles, and sample mean, assuming that data are normal.

Most of this will work better for very large $n.$ After some experimentation, I found that sample sizes around 35 are just large enough to get reasonably good results. All computations are done using R; seeds (based on current dates) are shown for simulations.

Hypothetical sample: So let's suppose we have a sample (rounded to two places) that is known to have come from a normal population of size $n = 35,$ but with unknown $\mu$ and $\sigma.$ We are given that the sample mean is $A = 49.19,$ the sample median is $H = 47.72,$ and that the lower and upper quartiles are $Q_1 = 43.62,\, Q_3 = 54.73,$ respectively. (Sometimes reports and articles don't give complete datasets, but do give such summary data about the sample.)

Estimating the population mean. The best estimate of the population mean $\mu$ is the sample mean $A = \hat \mu = 49.19.$

Estimating the population standard deviation: If we knew it, a good estimate of the population standard deviation (SD) would be the sample SD $S,$ but that information is not given. The interquartile range (IQR) of a standard normal population $1.35,$ and the IQR of a very large normal sample would be about $1.35\sigma.$

diff(qnorm(c(.25, .75)))
[1] 1.34898
set.seed(1018); IQR(rnorm(10^6))
[1] 1.351207

The IQR of our sample of size $n = 35$ is $54.73 - 43.62 = 11.11$ and the expected IQR of a standard normal sample of size 35 is 1.274. So we can estimate $\sigma$ for our population using the sample IQR: $\check \sigma = 11.11/1.274 = 8.72.$

set.seed(910);  m = 10^6;  n = 25
iqr = replicate(m, IQR(rnorm(n)))
mean(iqr);  sd(iqr)
[1] 1.274278
[1] 0.3024651

Assessing results: Thus, we can surmise that our normal population distribution is roughly, $\mathsf{Norm}(49.19, 8.72).$ Actually, I simulated the sample from $\mathsf{Norm}(50, 10).$

set.seed(2018);  x = round(rnorm(35, 50, 10), 2);  summary(x)
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
  31.73   43.62   47.72   49.19   54.73   70.99

It seems worthwhile to make two comparisons: (a) how well does the given information match the CDF of $\mathsf{Norm}(49.19, 8.72),$ and (b) how well does the CDF of this estimated distribution match what we know to be the true normal distribution. Of course, in a practical situation, we would not know the true normal distribution, so the second comparison would be impossible.

In the figure below, the blue curve is the estimated CDF; the solid red points show the sample values $Q_1, H, Q_3,$ and the red circle shows $A.$ The CDF of the true normal distribution is shown as a broken curve. It is no surprise that the three values $Q_1, Q_3,$ and $A$ used to estimate normal parameters fall near the estimated normal CDF.

curve(pnorm(x, 49.19, 8.27), 0, 80, lwd=2, ylab="CDF", 
    main="CDF of NORM(49.19, 8.27)", xaxs="i", col="blue")
  abline(h=0:1, col="green2")
  points(c(43.62, 47.72, 54.73), c(.25, .5, .75), pch=19, col="red")
  curve(pnorm(x, 50, 10), add=TRUE, lty="dotted")
  points(49.19, .50, col="red")

About symmetry: A remaining question is how much concern might have been appropriate about the normality of the data, upon noting that the sample mean exceeds the sample median by $D = A - H = 49.19 - 47.72 = 1.47.$ We can get a good idea by simulating the difference $D = A - H$ for many samples of size $n = 35$ from $\mathsf{Norm}(\mu = 49.19, \sigma = 8.27).$ A simple simulation shows that a larger positive difference might occur in such a normal sample about 11% of the time.

set.seed(918);  m = 10^6;  n = 25;  d = numeric(m)
for (i in 1:m) { 
   y = rnorm(n, 49.19, 8.27)
   d[i] = mean(y) - median(y) }
mean(d > 1.47)
[1] 0.113

Thus there is no significant evidence of skewness in the comparison of the our sample mean and median. Of course, the Laplace and Cauchy families of distributions are also symmetrical, so this would hardly be "proof" that the sample is from a normal population.

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The second half must also be split in two to find the value of the upper quartile. The rank of the upper quartile will be 6 + 3 = 9. So Q3 = 43. Once you have the quartiles, you can easily measure the spread. The interquartile range will be Q3 - Q1, which gives 28 (43-15). The semi-interquartile range is 14 (28 ÷ 2) and the range is 43 (49-6). For larger data sets, you can use the cumulative relative frequency distribution to help identify the quartiles or, even better, the basic statistics functions available in a spreadsheet or statistical software that give results more easily.
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December 31, 2020 - It shows that for a normal distribution, Q1 is equal to the mean minus 0.67 standard deviations, or 89.95. Q3 is equal to the mean plus 0.67 standard deviations, or 110.05. The document demonstrates how to use the normal distribution and z-table ...
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June 21, 2023 - To find the quartiles of a probability distribution, you can use the distribution’s quantile function.
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October 30, 2025 - Therefore, it would be more likely to find data that are marked as outliers. The Excel function QUARTILE.INC(array, quart) provides the desired quartile value for a given array of data, using Method 3 from above.
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You may be confusing population quantiles with the sample quantiles that estimate them. Your population quantiles are appropriately represented in your figures.

Population quantiles. If random variable $X \sim \mathsf{Norm}(\mu = 100, \sigma = 15),$ then quantiles $.01, .05, .25, .50, .95, .99$ of the distribution can be found in R by using the quantile function qnorm. (The quantile function is sometimes called the 'inverse CDF` function.)

q = round(qnorm(c(.01,.05,.25,.50,.75,.95,.99), 100, 15),3);  q
[1]  65.105  75.327  89.883 100.000 110.117 124.673 134.895 

These quantiles (at vertical lines) can be displayed along with the density function of $\mathsf{Norm}(100, 15)$ as shown in the graph below.

 curve(dnorm(x, 100, 15), 50, 150, col="blue", lwd=2, ylab="PDF",
      main="Density of NORM(100, 15) with Various Quantiles")
   abline(h=0, col="green2");  abline(v=0, col="green2")
   abline(v=q, col="red", lty="dotted", lwd=2)

The total area (representing probability) under the density curve is $1.$ Areas to the left of the three left-most vertical lines are $.01,.05,$ and $.25,$ respectively.

Sample quantiles. If I have a sufficiently large sample from this distribution, then I can find the quantiles of the sample. For example, the 50th sample percentile (quantile .5) is the sample median. These sample quantiles estimate the corresponding population percentiles. Generally speaking, larger samples give better estimates. I will use $n = 1000$ in my example.

set.seed(2020) # for reproducibility
x = round(rnorm(1000, 100, 15), 3)

Here are some summary statistics of the sample, including the sample first quartile (quantile .25), the sample median, and the sample third quartile (quantile .75). The boxplot uses the quartiles [upper and lower edges of the box]and the median [center line inside box], so we show it also.

summary(x)
    Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max. 
   52.51   89.30   99.14   99.60  109.58  155.54 

boxplot(x, col="skyblue2", horizontal=T,
        main="n=1000; Boxplot of Sample from NORM(100,15)")

Without extra arguments, the R procedure quantile shows the maximum and minimum values in the sample and the three quantiles shown in the summary.

quantile(x)
       0%       25%       50%       75%      100% 
 52.50800  89.30475  99.13750 109.57850 155.54300 

In order to get our full list of quantiles, we need to specify them individually.

samp.q = quantile(x, c(.01,.05,.25,.50,.75,.95,.99));  samp.q
       1%        5%       25%       50%       75%       95%       99% 
 63.76255  74.46450  89.30475  99.13750 109.57850 126.38775 136.60263 

In particular, notice that population quantile .05 (which is $75.327$ from earlier) is estimated by the sample quantile .05 (which is $74.465$ just above).

Finally, we show a histogram of the $n=1000$ observations along with the population density curve. Now the vertical dotted lines show the positions of our chosen sample quantiles.

hist(x, prob=T, col="skyblue2", main="Histogram of Sample")
 curve(dnorm(x, 100, 15), add=T, col="blue", lwd=2)
 abline(v=samp.q, col="purple", lty="dotted", lwd=2)

Numbers of observations at or to the left of the three left-most vertical lines are $10, 50,$ and $250,$ respectively, out of $1000.$

Note: All of the above is about quantiles for a normal distribution because your question deals only with normal distributions. But @Nick Cox makes a good point that quantiles are used similarly for other distributions. For example, here is a plot of an exponential distribution that has rate $\lambda = 0.1$ (hence mean $\mu = 10),$ with vertical lines at the same quantiles used above for the normal distribution.

q = round(qexp(c(.01,.05,.25,.50,.75,.95,.99), 0.1),3);  q
[1]  0.101  0.513  2.877  6.931 13.863 29.957 46.052

curve(dexp(x, 0.1), 0, 60, col="blue", lwd=2, ylab="PDF", n=10001,
      main="Density of EXP(mean=10) with Various Quantiles")
  abline(h=0, col="green2");  abline(v=0, col="green2")
  abline(v=q, col="red", lty="dotted", lwd=2)