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The average new car price is $36000 with a standard deviation of $1250. Consider a random sample
of 975 new cars.
Use Chebyshev’s Rule to address the following:
1- At least how many new car prices lie between $32250 and $39750?
2- At least how many new car prices lie between $31000 and $41000?
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