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melina_rosy

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A pediatric nurse measures and weighs a 9-year-old patient and determines that his height is in the 94th percentile, and his weight is in the 65th percentile.
 
  This patient weighs more than 65 of children in his age group but less than ____________ of children in the same group.
  a. 35
  b. 94
  c. 29
  d. 15

Question 2

In a normal distribution, what percentile represents the median of the sample?
 
  a. 25th
  b. 50th
  c. 75th
  d. 100th


diana chang

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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a. 35

Answer to Question 2

b. 50th


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