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Glencoe Algebra 1, Student Edition, 9780079039897, 0079039898, 2018

18th Edition

ISBN:9780079039897

Author:Carter

Publisher:Carter

Chapter10: Statistics

Section10.5: Comparing Sets Of Data

Problem 13PPS

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The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 3 days and a standard deviation of 1.6 days. Let X be the recovery time for a randomly selected patient. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

b. What is the median recovery time? days

c. What is the Z-score for a patient that took 4.2 days to recover?

d. What is the probability of spending more than 2.9 days in recovery?

e. What is the probability of spending between 3.3 and 4.1 days in recovery?

f. The 90th percentile for recovery times is days.

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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