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rowdy3
Sep19-09, 03:16 PM
Human body temperatures are normally distributed with a mean of 98.20 and a standard deviation of 0.62.
Find the body temperature corresponding to a z-score of z=1.73



What are the steps to solve this problem.

HallsofIvy
Sep19-09, 05:02 PM
Well, clearly whoever gave you this problem expects you to know that if x is from a normal distribution with mean \mu and standard deviation \sigma then the corresponding z, for the standard normal distribution, is given by
\frac{x- \mu}{\sigma}

Since here you are given z, put the given values into the equation and solve for x.