The patient recovery time from a particular surgical procedure is normally distributed with a mean of 5.9 days and a standard de
viation of 2.5 days.
What is the 70th percentile for recovery times? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)
1 answer:
The 70th percentile is the same as the cutoff recovery time

such that every point above this time falls in the longest 30%, i.e.

Transform to the standard normal distribution:

where

is the z-score corresponding to the cutoff time

, which is approximately

. Solve for

:
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