Total cholesterol in children aged 10 to 15 is assumed to follow a normal distribution with a mean of 191 and a standard deviation of 22.4 A) what proportion of children 10-15 of age have total cholesterol between 180 and 190? B)what proportion of children 10-15 years of age would be classified as hyperlipidia (assume that hyperlipidic is defined as a total cholesterol level over 200)?
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
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Total cholesterol in children aged 10 to 15 is assumed to follow a
A) what proportion of children 10-15 of age have total cholesterol between 180 and 190?
B)what proportion of children 10-15 years of age would be classified as hyperlipidia (assume that hyperlipidic is defined as a total cholesterol level over 200)?
c) what is the 90th percentile of cholesterol levels?
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