Assume that human body temperatures are normally distributed with a mean of 98.19F and a standard deviation of 0.63F.

a. A hospital uses 100.6F 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 100.6F 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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