The systolic blood pressure (BP) of adults in the USA is nearly normally distributed with a mean of 117 and standard deviation of 17 . Someone qualifies as having Stage 2 high blood pressure if their systolic blood pressure is 160 or higher. (a) Around what percentage of adults in the USA have stage 2 high blood pressure? Give your answer rounded to two decimal places. % (b) Stage 1 high BP is specified as systolic BP between 140 and 160. What percentage of adults in the US qualify for stage 1? Give your answer rounded to two decimal places. %
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!
The systolic blood pressure (BP) of adults in the USA is nearly
Someone qualifies as having Stage 2 high blood pressure if their systolic blood pressure is 160 or higher.
(a) Around what percentage of adults in the USA have stage 2 high blood pressure? Give your answer rounded to two decimal places.
%
(b) Stage 1 high BP is specified as systolic BP between 140 and 160. What percentage of adults in the US qualify for stage 1? Give your answer rounded to two decimal places.
%
(c) Your doctor tells you that you are in the 30th percentile (e.g. bottom 30%) for blood pressure among US adults. What is your systolic BP? Give your answer rounded to two decimal places.
mmHg
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