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A hospital would like to determine the average stay for its patients having abdominal surgery. A sample of 15 patients revealed a sample mean of 6.4 days and a sample standard deviation of 1.4 days.How do you display this in a normal curve?? any help would be appreciated. Thanks
 
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A hospital would like to determine the average stay for its patients having abdominal surgery. A sample of 15 patients revealed a sample mean of 6.4 days and a sample standard deviation of 1.4 days.How do you display this in a normal curve?? any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi CosmoK! :)

The normal curve looks like this:
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It has a mean of 6.4 days and a standard deviation of 1.4 days.
 

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