Chapter 2: Q 49. (page 139)
Normal curve Estimate the mean and standard deviation of the Normal density curve below. 
Short Answer
Mean of the Normal density curve,
The standard deviation of the Normal density curve,
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Chapter 2: Q 49. (page 139)
Normal curve Estimate the mean and standard deviation of the Normal density curve below. 
Mean of the Normal density curve,
The standard deviation of the Normal density curve,
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Blood pressure According to a health information website, the distribution of adults鈥 diastolic blood pressure (in millimeters of mercury) can be modeled by a Normal distribution with mean and a standard deviation A diastolic pressure above Around 6.68% of the adults have very high blood pressure according to the criterion. for an adult is classified as very high blood pressure. About what proportion of adults have very high blood pressure according to this criterion?
When Sam goes to a restaurant, he always tips the server of the cost of the meal. If Sam鈥檚 distribution of meal costs has a mean of and a standard deviation of what are the mean and standard deviation of his tip distribution?
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Is Michigan Normal? We collected data on the tuition charged by colleges and
universities in Michigan. Here are some numerical summaries for the data:

Based on the relationship between the mean, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum, is it reasonable to believe that the distribution of Michigan tuitions is approximately Normal? Explain your answer.
Don鈥檛 call me According to a study by Nielsen Mobile, 鈥淭eenagers ages to are by far the most prolific texters, sending messages a month.鈥 Mr. Williams, a high school statistics teacher, was skeptical about the claims in the article. So he collected data from his first-period statistics class on the number of text messages they had sent over the past hours. Here are the data:

a. Sunny was the student who sent text messages. What is Sunny鈥檚 percentile?
b. Find the number of text messages sent by Joelle, who is at the 16th percentile of the distribution.
Watch the salt! A study investigated about meals ordered from
Chipotle restaurants use the online site Grubhub. Researchers calculated the sodium content (in milligrams) for each order based on Chipotle鈥檚 published nutrition information. The distribution of sodium content is approximately Normal with a mean of mg and a standard deviation of mg.About what percent of the meals ordered exceeded the recommended daily allowance of mg of sodium?
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