SOLUTION: The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.9 days and standard deviation of 1.3 days. Use your graphing calculator to a

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Question 1203964: The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.9 days and standard deviation of 1.3 days. Use your graphing calculator to answer the following questions. Write your answers in percent form. Round your answers to the nearest tenth of a percent.
a) What is the probability of spending less than 8 days in recovery?
b) What is the probability of spending more than 4 days in recovery?
c) What is the probability of spending between 4 days and 8 days in recovery?

Answer by ikleyn(52790)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed
with a mean of 5.9 days and standard deviation of 1.3 days.
Use your graphing calculator to answer the following questions.
Write your answers in percent form. Round your answers to the nearest tenth of a percent.
(a) What is the probability of spending less than 8 days in recovery?
(b) What is the probability of spending more than 4 days in recovery?
(c) What is the probability of spending between 4 days and 8 days in recovery?
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Use standard function normalcdf on your graphing calculator.


                    z1   z2  mean  SD    <<<---=== formatting pattern
(a)  P = normalcdf(-9999, 8, 5.9,  1.3).


(b)  P = normalcdf(4, 999, 5.9, 1.3).


(c)  P = normalcdf(3, 9, 5.9, 1.3).

You do the rest.


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On  HOW  TO  calculate  Normal  Probabilities on a  TI-84  Calculator,  see this web-site

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