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The heights of the students in a New York college were found to follow a normal distribution, with a mean of 170 centimeters and a standard deviation of 5 centimeters. Which range of values contains 95% of the data?

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on plato its, B.

160 centimeters to 180 centimeters.

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In any normal distribution, about 95% of it lies within two standard deviations of the mean. So the range would be approximately
(170-2*5,170+2*5)=(160,180).
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