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Measure your own heart rate in beats per minute. Post your individual results and corresponding z-score using a population mean resting heart rate of 73 beats per minute and standard deviation of 8 beats per minute. Be sure to use the formula z equal fraction numerator Y minus italic mu over denominator italic sigma end fraction to calculate your z score. Use the StandardNormalZTables(1).pdf to find your resting heart rate percentile ranking. Do you think your resting hear rate is rare? For example: My resting heart rate is 64. My z score is -1.125 (use -1.13 for the table). My percentile rank is 12.92%. I do not think my resting heart rate is rare since it is less than 2 standard deviations from the mean.