A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134753119
Author: Sheldon Ross
Publisher: PEARSON
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The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace florecent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 5. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule, what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 55 and 65?

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ans =  %

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Let X:  the number of daily requests

X is approximately bell shaped. then X follows the empirical rule.

we know the mean(μ) = 55 and standard deviation(σ) = 5

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