SOLUTION: Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell shaped distribution with a mean of 169 cm and a standard deviation of 8 cm. Using the empirical rule what is the approximate percentag

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Question 914175: Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell shaped distribution with a mean of 169 cm and a standard deviation of 8 cm. Using the empirical rule what is the approximate percentage of the men between the following values?
A)____% of the men are between 145cm and 193cm?
B)____% of the men are between 161cm and 177cm?

Answer by ewatrrr(24785) About Me  (Show Source):
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one standard deviation from the mean accounts for about 68% of the set
two standard deviations from the mean account for about 95%
and three standard deviations from the mean account for about 99.7%.
A) 3SD...99.7%
B) 1SD...68%