A nationwide test taken by high school sophomores and juniors has three sections, each scored on a scale of  20 to 80. In a recent year, the national mean score for the writing section was 50.1, with a standard deviation of 10.0. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the scores on the writing section for the recent year. According to Chebyshev's theorem, at which percent does 36, 56%, 75%, 84%, 89% of the scores lie between 30.1 and 70.1.  According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least  /89 (about 89%) of the scores lie between _ and _. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

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A nationwide test taken by high school sophomores and juniors has three sections, each scored on a scale of  20 to 80. In a recent year, the national mean score for the writing section was 50.1, with a standard deviation of 10.0. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the scores on the writing section for the recent year.

According to Chebyshev's theorem, at which percent does 36, 56%, 75%, 84%, 89% of the scores lie between 30.1 and 70.1.

 According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least  /89 (about 89%) of the scores lie between _ and _. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

 

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