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(a) Use Chebyshev's theorem to find what percent of the values will fall between 120 and 150 for a data set with mean of 135 and standard deviation of 7.5.

(b) Use the Empirical Rule to find what two values 95% of the data will fall between for a data set with mean 234 and standard deviation of 12.

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(a) According to Chebyshev's theorem, for any population or sample, at least [1 - (1 / k)^2] of the observations in the ...

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