SOLUTION: Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.3 days and a

Question 1028238: Use the following information to answer the next two exercises: The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.3 days and a standard deviation of 2.1 days.
What is the median recovery time? Please show work.
a. 2.7
b. 5.3
c. 7.4
d. 2.1

Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For a random variable that is normally distributed, its mean is always equal to its median, regardless of the value of its standard deviation.
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