Question

Diastolic blood pressures are assumed to follow a normal distribution with a mean of 85 and a standard deviation of 12. What proportion of people has diastolic blood pressures less than 80?

Answer 1

0.3745

Explanation:

We have to solve the problem by calculating the z-score value that has the following formula:

z <(x - m) / sd

x is the value to evaluate (<80), m is the mean (85) and the standard deviation is sd (12)

replacing:

p (x <80) = z <(80 - 85) / 12

z <-0.416, we look for this value in the normal distribution table and it corresponds to:

p (x <80) = 0.3745

Which means that the proportion of people is 0.3745