SOLUTION: In nyc high school, a survey revealed that the mean amount of soda amount of soda consumed during a week was 12 bottles with a standard deviation of 2 bottles. If 1200 students par

Question 935097: In nyc high school, a survey revealed that the mean amount of soda amount of soda consumed during a week was 12 bottles with a standard deviation of 2 bottles. If 1200 students participated in this survey find the number of students within one standard deviation of the data on a bell curve.
Answer by TimothyLamb(4379) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
For the normal distribution (i.e. a bell curve), the values within one standard deviation away from the mean account for 68.27% of the set:
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1200 * 0.6827 = 819.24
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answer:
about 819 students are within one standard deviation of the mean
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