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Height of Basketball Players
A sample of basketball players has a mean height of 190 cm, with a standard deviation of 12 cm. You know nothing else about the size of the data set or the shape of the data distribution.
-Refer to the Height of Basketball Players statement. Can you use Tchebysheff's Theorem and/or the Empirical Rule to describe the data? Explain.


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Expression

A mathematical phrase that can include numbers, variables, and operation symbols but does not have an equality sign.

Rationalize

The process of eliminating radicals from the denominator of a fraction or complex numbers from the denominator.

Denominator

The lower segment of a fraction representing the number of parts into which the total is split.

Rationalize

A method in mathematics used to eliminate the radical (such as a square root) from the denominator of a fraction.

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