Question

When Colton commutes to work, the amount of time it takes him to arrive is normally distributed with a mean of 41 minutes and a standard deviation of 3.5 minutes. Using the empirical rule, determine the interval that represents the middle 95% of his commute times

Answer 1

(34, 48)

Explanation:

According to the Empirical Rule, 95% of normally distributed data lie within two standard deviations of the mean. That, in turn, means 95% of the data in this problem lie within 2(3.5 min), or 7 min, of the mean:

41 - 7 < mean < 41 + 7, or

34 < mean < 48, or simply (34, 48)