(Requires Appendix Material)This Question Requires You to Work with Chebychev's

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(Requires Appendix material)This question requires you to work with Chebychev's Inequality.
(a)State Chebychev's Inequality.
(b)Chebychev's Inequality is sometimes stated in the form "The probability that a random variable is further than k standard deviations from its mean is less than 1/k²." Deduce this form. (Hint: choose ? artfully.)
(c)If X is distributed N(0,1), what is the probability that X is two standard deviations from its mean? Three? What is the Chebychev bound for these values?
(d)It is sometimes said that the Chebychev inequality is not "sharp." What does that mean?

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