Which of the Following Individuals Would Lose Heat the Fastest

question 105

Multiple Choice

Which of the following individuals would lose heat the fastest in a cold room?

• A) an adult man
• B) an adult woman
• C) an adolescent male
• D) a child
• E) a newborn infant

---

Definitions:

Normal Curve

A symmetrical, bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of values, deviations, or probabilities for a set of data in which most measurements cluster around the mean.

Bell-Shaped

A bell-shaped curve is a graph of a distribution that resembles the shape of a bell, typically representing a normal distribution in which the bulk of the values lie towards the center and taper off symmetrically towards the extremes.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how spread out the values are.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, found by dividing the sum of all the numbers by the count of the numbers.