Answer:
The empirical rule, the approximate percentage of trees planted between 38 and 68 is 99.7%.
Step-by-step 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%.
