Question

The distribution of the number of apples trees a farmer can plant each day is bell-shaped and has a mean of 62 and a standard deviation of 8. Use the empirical rule to help you answer the following. What is the approximate percentage of trees planted between 38 and 68

Answer 1

The empirical rule, the approximate percentage of trees planted between 38 and 68 is 99.7%.

Explanation:

The Empirical Rule states that, for a normally distributed random variable:

Approximately 68% of the measures are within 1 standard deviation of the mean.

Approximately 95% of the measures are within 2 standard deviations of the mean.

Approximately 99.7% of the measures are within 3 standard deviations of the mean.

In this problem, we have that:

Mean of 62, standard deviation of 8.

What is the approximate percentage of trees planted between 38 and 86?

38 = 62 - 3*8

86 = 62 + 3*8

So within 3 standard deviations of the mean, which, by the empirical rule, the approximate percentage of trees planted between 38 and 68 is 99.7%.