peratures of a group of healthy adults have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 98.11°F and a standard deviation of 0.54°F. Using the empirical rule, find each approximate percentage below. a. What is the approximate percentage of healthy adults with body temperatures within 1standard deviation of the mean, or between 97.57°F and 98.65°F?
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!
Using the empirical rule, find each approximate percentage below.
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What is the approximate percentage of healthy adults with body temperatures within 1standard deviation of the mean, or between 97.57°F and 98.65°F? |
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What is the approximate percentage of healthy adults with body temperatures between 97.03°F and 99.19°F? |
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