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mr. emmer gave a test in his chemistry class. the scores were normally distributed with a mean of 82 and a standard deviation of 4. what percent of students would you expect to score between 78 and 36?

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P(36\le X\le78)=P((X1-\mu)/(\sigma)\le Z\le(X2-\mu)/(\sigma))

Where:


\begin{gathered} X1=36 \\ X2=78 \\ \mu=82 \\ \sigma=4 \end{gathered}

So:


\begin{gathered} P(36\le X\le78)=P((78-82)/(4)\le Z\le(86-82)/(4)) \\ P(36\le X\le78)=P(-1\le Z\le1) \\ P(36\le X\le78)=0.6827\approx0.68 \end{gathered}

As a percentage: 68%

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