SOLUTION: Heights of women have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 161 cm and a standard deviation of 5 cm. Using Chebyshev's theorem, what do we know about the percentage of wo
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Question 1132740: Heights of women have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 161 cm and a standard deviation of 5 cm. Using Chebyshev's theorem, what do we know about the percentage of women with heights that are within 2 standard deviations of the mean? What are the minimum and maximum heights that are within 2 standard deviations of the mean?
At least _____% of women have heights within 2 standard deviations of 161 cm.
(Round to the nearest percent as needed.)
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Chebyshev's Theorem
For any numerical data set,
at least 3/4 of the data lie within two standard deviations of the mean
at least 8/9 of the data lie within three standard deviations of the mean
John
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