Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown.
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Question
Overproduction of uric acid in the body can be an indication of cell breakdown. This may be an advance indication of illness such as gout, leukemia, or lymphoma (Reference: Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests by F. Fischbach). Over a period of months, an adult male patient has taken eight blood tests for uric acid. The mean concentration was = 5.35mg/dl. The distribution of uric acid in healthy adult males can be assumed to be normal, with standard deviation of 1.85mg/dl. Find a 95% confidence interval for the population mean concentration of uric acid in this patient’s blood.
The 95% confidence interval for the population mean concentration of uric acid in this patient’s blood is somewhere between mg/dl and mg/dl.
(Round answers to 2 decimal places and enter a real number only.)
Explanation / Answer
Margin of error = (1.960*1.85)/SQRT(8) = 1.2820
95% Interval
(5.35-1.2820, 5.35+1.2820)
=(4.07, 6.63)
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