An 1868 paper by German physician Carl Wunderlich reported, based on over a million body temperature readings, that healthy adult body temperatures are approximately normally distributed with mean 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit and standard deviation 0.6..
A) According to this study, what is the range of body temperatures that can be found in 95% of healthy adults? We are looking for the middle 95%
- lower limit?
- Upper limit?
B) A recent study suggests that healthy adult body temperatures are described better by N(98.2,0.7). What is the middle 95% range of body temperatures?
- upper limit?
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