A nationwide test taken by high school sophomores and juniors has three sections, each scored on a scale of 20 to 80. In a recent year, the national mean score for the writing section was 51.0, with a standard deviation of 10.6 . Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the scores on the writing section for the recent year.   (a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least _%? (36%56%75%84%89%) of the scores lie between 29.8 and 72.2 . (b) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least 56% of the scores lie between   _? and _?   . (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)

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A nationwide test taken by high school sophomores and juniors has three sections, each scored on a scale of
20 to 80. In a recent year, the national mean score for the writing section was
51.0, with a standard deviation of 10.6
. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the scores on the writing section for the recent year.

 

(a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least _%? (36%56%75%84%89%) of the scores lie between
29.8
and
72.2
.
(b) According to Chebyshev's theorem, at least
56%
of the scores lie between
 
_? and _?
 
. (Round your answer to 1 decimal place.)
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Let X represent the random variable

Mean x¯=51

Standard deviation (s)=10.6

X~ Normal (51, 10.62)

 

 

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