Determine the percentage of a normal healthy person


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Assume body temperatures are normally distributed with mean of 98.2 and a standard dev. of 0.62

Q1: Assuming a hospital defines a fever as 100 or over, determine the percentage of a normal healthy person considered to have a fever using Z table

Q2: Determine the minimum fever if doctors at the hospital want only 3.0% of healthy persons to be diagnosed as having a fever. Use closest z score. Answer is 99.37.

Q3: How does 100.1-98.2/.62=.11 in part A and part B = 99.55 wanting 1.5% of healthy to be diagnosed?

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