Multiple Choice
A clinical laboratory scientist performs 30 replicate hemoglobin determinations on a single blood sample. When statistics are used to determine the precision of the method, the mean is 13.8 g/dL and 1 SD is 0.1 g/dL. This means that 95.5% of the results on this specimen lie:
A) Between 13.4 and 14.2 g/dL
B) Between 13.6 and 14.0 g/dL
C) Between 13.5 and 14.1 g/dL
D) Between 13.7 and 13.9 g/dL
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