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Posted by sally on Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 4:57pm.

The lifetimes of lightbulbs of a particular type are normally distributed with a mean of 290 hours and a standard deviation of 6 hours. What percentage of the bulbs have lifetimes that lie within 1 standard deviation to either side of the mean?

• Statistics - Ms. Sue, Saturday, May 23, 2009 at 5:00pm

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• Statistics - PsyDAG, Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 12:28pm

  Approximately 34% of scores lie between the mean and one standard deviation in any normal distribution. Therefore, μ ± 1 SD contains approximately 68% of the cases. I hope this helps. Thanks for asking.

  
  

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