An 1868 paper by German physician Carl Wunderlich reported, based on more than a million body temperature readings, that healthy-adult body temperatures are approximately Normal with mean μ = 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (°F) and standard deviation σ = 0.6°F. This is still the most widely quoted result for human temperature.
(a) According to this study, what is the range of body temperatures that can be found in 95% of healthy adults? We are looking for the middle 95% of the adult population. (Enter your answers rounded to two decimal places.)
lower limit: 97.4 °F
upper limit: 99.8 °F
(b) A more recent study suggests that healthy-adult body temperatures are better described by the N(98.2, 0.7) distribution. Based on this later study, what is the middle 95% range of body temperature? (Enter your answers rounded to two decimal places.)
lower limit: 96.6 °F
upper limit: 99.6 °F