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ISBN: 9781305268920

Author: Bernard Rosner

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 5, Problem 13P

The duration of cigarette smoking has been linked to many diseases, including lung cancer and various forms of heart disease. Suppose we know that among men ages 30−34 who have ever smoked, the mean number of years they smoked is 12.8 with a standard deviation of 5.1 years. For women in this age group, the mean number of years they smoked is 9.3 with a standard deviation of 3.2.

Answer Problem 5.12 for women.

5.12 Assuming that the duration of smoking is normally distributed, what proportion of men in this age group have smoked for more than 20 years?

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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Solution Summary: The author explains that the distribution of the number of years smoked by women in the age group 30-34 is normally distributed with mean 9.3 years and standard deviation 3.2 years.

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