Lightbulbs
The physical plant at the main campus of a large state university recieves daily requests to replace fluorescent lightbulbs. The distribution of the number of daily requests is bell-shaped and has a mean of 48 and a standard deviation of 10. Using the empirical rule, what is the approximate percentage of lightbulb replacement requests numbering between 38 and 48?
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