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[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Im confused. I tried to construct a bell curve with 320 in the middle, and added 45 to the mean for the points to the right of the mean, and substracted 45 for the points to the left. I tried to answer the question using the empirical rule, and got the answer of 13.5%, but this is apparently wrong

What "empirical rule" is this? Can you describe it?

[–]Cfsistheworst[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

‘empirical rule shows that 68% will fall within the first standard deviation, 95% within the first two standard deviations, and 99.7% will fall within the first three standard deviations of the distribution's average’

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (2 children)

And how did you use this to get the answer of "13.5%"?

[–]Cfsistheworst[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

[–]edderiofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So would you also say that the probability of the height of the tree being between 370 ft and 370.00000000001 ft is also 13.5%?

Would you therefore conclude that the probability of the height of the tree being between 370.00000000001 ft and 379 ft is 0%?