11. Hospital-acquired Infections. All hospitals accepting Medicare/Medicaidpatients and submitting claims for payment to Centers for Medicare and Medi-caid Services have to meet certain criteria regarding safe care in order to not bepenalized on reimbursement. Inpatient hospitals that do not practice safe careprocedures during surgery run the risk of possibly passing on hospital-acquiredinfections (HAIs), such as MRSA, SSI, CLABSI, etc. One indication of a HAIis higher than expected body temperature during the inpatient recovery pro-cess. It is known that the distribution of body temperatures among patientsis normally distributed with a mean of 98.25 degrees Fahrenheit and standarddeviation of 0.73 degrees Fahrenheit.(a) In most instances, patients with abnormally higher than expected bodytemperature, greater than 2 standard deviations from the mean, are assumedto have HAI. What is the body temperature associated with plus 2 SD from themean?(b) What percent of any given patient population at the hospital may besubject to having a HAI according to extreme body temperatures?(c) What is the probability of a patient's body temperature being exactly98 degrees Fahrenheit?

It is given that Mean = 98.25 Standard deviation, SD = 0.73 Z-Score, Z = ( X - μ )/σ

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