document.write( "Question 1158683: The maintenance department at the main campus of a large state university receives daily requests to replace fluorecent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 49 and a standard deviation of 9. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule, what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 49 and 58?
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Algebra.Com's Answer #781682 by Boreal(15235)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! 49 is the mean and 58 is 1 sd above the mean. \n" ); document.write( "If 68% of all requests are between +/- 1 sd, then half or 34% are between 0 and +1 sd. \n" ); document.write( "34% is the approximate percentage. \n" ); document.write( " |