The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 3 - The Normal Distributions - Chapter 3 Exercises - Page 99: 3.52a

Answer

(a) $0.6827$, $0.68$

Work Step by Step

(a) With an approximation up to four digits after the decimal, for $\pm\sigma$, we can get an area of $0.6827$ while the empirical rule gives $0.68$
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