The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace florecent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 4. Using the 68-95-99.7 rule, what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 43 and 55?

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Answer:

50%

Step-by-step explanation:

68-95-99.7 rule

68% of all values lie within the 1 standard deviation from mean [tex](\mu-\sigma,\mu+\sigma)[/tex]

95% of all values lie within the 1 standard deviation from mean  [tex](\mu-1\sigma,\mu+1\sigma)[/tex]

99.7% of all values lie within the 1 standard deviation from mean  [tex](\mu-3\sigma,\mu+3\sigma)[/tex]

The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 55 and a standard deviation of 4.

[tex]\mu = 55\\\sigma = 4[/tex]

68% of all values lie within the 1 standard deviation from mean [tex](\mu-\sigma,\mu+\sigma)[/tex] = [tex](55-4,55+4)[/tex]= [tex](51,59)[/tex]

95% of all values lie within the 2 standard deviation from mean  [tex](\mu-1\sigma,\mu+1\sigma)[/tex]= [tex](55-2(4),55+2(4))[/tex]= [tex](47,63)[/tex]

99.7% of all values lie within the 3 standard deviation from mean  [tex](\mu-3\sigma,\mu+3\sigma)[/tex]= [tex](55-3(4),55+3(4))[/tex]= [tex](43,67)[/tex]

Refer the attached figure

P(43<x<55)=2.5%+13.5%+34%=50%

Hence The approximate percentage of light bulb replacement requests numbering between 43 and 55 is 50%

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