SOLUTION: use chebyshev's theorem to find the minimum proportion of observations that will lie lie within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean?

SOLUTION: use chebyshev's theorem to find the minimum proportion of observations that will lie lie within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean?

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Question 742554: use chebyshev's theorem to find the minimum proportion of observations that will lie lie within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
use chebyshev's theorem to find the minimum proportion of observations that will lie lie within 1.5 standard deviations of the mean?
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Ans: At least (1-1/(1.5)^2) = (1- 0.4444) = 0.56 = 56%
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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