Question

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 45 and a standard deviation of 5. Using the empirical rule (as presented in the book), what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 35 and 45?

Answer 1

The Empirical Rule applies to a normal, bell-shaped curve and states that within one standard deviation of the mean (both left-side and right-side) there is about 68% of the data; within two standard deviations of the mean (both left-side and right-side) there is about 95% of the data; and within three standard deviations of the mean (both left-side and right-side) there is about 99.7% of the data.