The Amount of Time Spent by American Adults Playing Sports

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Short Answer

The amount of time spent by American adults playing sports per day is normally distributed with a mean of 4 hours and standard deviation of 1.25 hours.Find the probability that a randomly selected American adult plays sports for more than 5 hours per day.

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Definitions:

Brain Death

A condition characterized by the irreversible cessation of all brain activity, including the brainstem, used in many jurisdictions as a legal definition of death.

Diffusion Tensor Imaging

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