A person with "normal" blood pressure has a diastolic measurement of 76 mmHg, and a standard deviation of 4.5 mmHg. Assume the population data in this scenario is normally distributed. Standard Normal Distribution Table a. What is the probability that a randomly selected person with "normal" blood pressure will get a diastolic result of over 80 mmHg, indicating the possibility of pre-hypertension? Mean of distribution = Standard deviation of distribution = z-score = Round to two decimal places if necessary P(Diastolic BP>80)=P(Diastolic BP>80)= Round to four decimal places if necessary b. If a patient takes his blood pressure every day for a week, what is the probability of getting an average diastolic blood pressure result of over 80 mmHg, assuming the patient has "normal" blood pressure? Mean of distribution = Standard deviation of distribution = Round to two decimal places if necessary z-score = Round to two decimal places if necessary P(Average Diastolic BP>80)=P(Average Diastolic BP>80)= Round to four decimal places if necessary
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
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