A 1992 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees

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A 1992 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (“A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wundrlich”) reported body temperature, gender, and heart rate for a number of subjects. The body temperatures for 25 female subjects follow: 97.8, 97.2, 97.4, 97.6, 97.8, 97.9, 98.0, 98.0, 98.0, 98.1, 98.2, 98.3, 98.3, 98.4, 98.4, 98.4, 98.5, 98.6, 98.6, 98.7, 98.8, 98.8, 98.9, 98.9, and 99.0.
(d) Explain how the question in part (a) could be answered by constructing a two-sided confidence interval on the mean female body temperature.
(e) Is there evidence to support the assumption that female body temperature is normally distributed?
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