Assume that human body temperatures are noramlly distrubted with a mean of 98.2*F and a standard deviation of 0.62*F.
A hospital uses 100.6*F as the lowest temperature considered to be a fever. What percentage of normal and healthy persons would be considered to have a fever? Does this percentage suggest that a cutoff of 100.6*F is appropriate?
True or False,
Physicians want to select a minimum temperature for requiring further medical tests. What should that temperature be, if we want only 5.0% of healthy people to exceed it? (Such a result is a false positive, meaning that the test result is positive, but the subject is not really sick)