SOLUTION: A distribution of children's temperatures is known to be approximately normally distributed with mean of 37.1 Celsius and standard deviation of 0.33 Celcius. Determine the proba

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Question 871263: A distribution of children's temperatures is known to be approximately normally distributed with mean of 37.1 Celsius and standard deviation of 0.33 Celcius.
Determine the probability of randomly selecting one child with a temperature of at least 37.9 Celsius.

Enter your response as a three digit decimal value.
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Mean = 37.1 Celsius and standard deviation of 0.33 Celsius.  

P(x ≥ 37.90)  z = .8/.33 = 2.4242

P(z ≥ 2.4242) = .0077  0r  .008 (three digit decimal value)