Use Technology to Solve the Following Problem: a Recent Study

question 65

Multiple Choice

Use technology to solve the following problem: A recent study reported that diastolic blood pressures of adult women in the United States are approximately normally distributed with mean 80.6 and standard deviation 9.9. What proportion of women have blood pressures higher than 85.8?

• A) 0.7003
• B) 0.3501
• C) 0.6499
• D) 0.2997

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