Chapter 6: Q13 (page 240)
Standard Normal Distribution. Find the indicated z score. The graph depicts the standard normal distribution of bone density scores with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
Short Answer
The z-score indicated in graphis 1.23.
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Chapter 6: Q13 (page 240)
Standard Normal Distribution. Find the indicated z score. The graph depicts the standard normal distribution of bone density scores with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
The z-score indicated in graphis 1.23.
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In Exercises 9鈥12, find the area of the shaded region. The graph depicts the standard normal distribution of bone density scores with mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
Using the Central Limit Theorem. In Exercises 5鈥8, assume that females have pulse rates that are normally distributed with a mean of 74.0 beats per minute and a standard deviation of 12.5 beats per minute (based on Data Set 1 鈥淏ody Data鈥 in Appendix B).
a. If 1 adult female is randomly selected, find the probability that her pulse rate is greater than 70 beats per minute.
b. If 25 adult females are randomly selected, find the probability that they have pulse rates with a mean greater than 70 beats per minute.
c. Why can the normal distribution be used in part (b), even though the sample size does not exceed 30?
In Exercises 7鈥10, use the same population of {4, 5, 9} that was used in Examples 2 and 5. As in Examples 2 and 5, assume that samples of size n = 2 are randomly selected with replacement.
Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion
a. For the population, find the proportion of odd numbers.
b. Table 6-2 describes the sampling distribution of the sample mean. Construct a similar table representing the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of odd numbers. Then combine values of the sample proportion that are the same, as in Table 6-3. (Hint: See Example 2 on page 258 for Tables 6-2 and 6-3, which describe the sampling distribution of the sample mean.)
c. Find the mean of the sampling distribution of the sample proportion of odd numbers.
d. Based on the preceding results, is the sample proportion an unbiased estimator of the population proportion? Why or why not?
Body Temperatures Based on the sample results in Data Set 3 鈥淏ody Temperatures鈥 in Appendix B, assume that human body temperatures are normally distributed with a mean of 98.20掳F and a standard deviation of 0.62掳F.
a. According to emedicinehealth.com, a body temperature of 100.4掳F or above is 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 100.4掳F is appropriate?
b. Physicians want to select a minimum temperature for requiring further medical tests. What should that temperature be, if we want only 2.0% 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.)
Birth Weights Based on Data Set 4 鈥淏irths鈥 in Appendix B, birth weights are normally distributed with a mean of 3152.0 g and a standard deviation of 693.4 g.
a. For the bell-shaped graph, what is the area under the curve?
b. What is the value of the median?
c. What is the value of the mode?
d. What is the value of the variance?
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