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Mathematics, 30.03.2021 03:50, samueldfhung

Assume that human body temperatures are normally distributed with a mean of 98.23 F and a standard deviation of 0.64 F. a. A hospital uses 100.6 F as the lowest temperature considered to be a fever. What percentage of normal and healthy persons would be considered to have a​ fever? Does this percentage suggest that a cutoff of is​ appropriate?

b. Physicians want to select a minimum temperature for requiring further medical tests. What should that temperature​ be, if we want only​ 5.0% of healthy people to exceed​ it? (Such a result is a false​ positive, meaning that the test result is​ positive, but the subject is not really​ sick.)

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