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frosst
Sep 27, 2007, 10:41 AM
you are randomly selecting 100 people from a population that is normally distributed. Are you certain to get exactly 95 people who lie within two standard deviations of the mean?

Explain this please...

galactus
Sep 27, 2007, 01:23 PM
This is the Empirical Rule.

68% lies within 1 standard deviation, 95% lies within two, and 99.7 lies within 3.