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About what percent of  values lie between the first and second standard deviations from the mean (both sides)?

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Step 1.

In statistics, a normal distribution is a continuous variable with pdf

  

Where:   is the mean of the distribution and   is the standard deviation; notation . If  the random variable is called the standard normal distribution.

In a normal distribution, the -score indicates how many standard deviations a given number is above or below the mean. The -negative score's value indicates that the value is below the mean, while the positive value indicates that it is above the mean.

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