Use the Empirical Rule to Describe Data That Are Bell $95 \%$

question 108

Multiple Choice

Use the Empirical Rule to Describe Data That Are Bell Shaped
-A small computing center has found that the number of jobs submitted per day to its computers has a distribution that is approximately bell shaped, with a mean of 91 jobs and a standard deviation of 12 . Where do we expect most (approximately $95 \%$ ) of the distribution to fall?

• A) between 67 and 115 jobs per day
• B) between 79 and 103 jobs per day
• C) between 55 and 127 jobs per day
• D) between 67 and 127 jobs per day

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