The one-way commuting times from home to work for all employees working at a large company have a mean of 34 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes.  a. Using Chebyshev's theorem, find the minimum percentage of employees at this company who have one-way commuting times in the following intervals.        i. 14 to 54 minutes ii. 18 to 50 minutes b. Using Chebyshev's theorem, find the interval that contains one-way commuting times of at least 89% of the employees at this compan

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The one-way commuting times from home to work for all employees working at a large company have a mean of 34 minutes and a standard deviation of 8 minutes. 

a. Using Chebyshev's theorem, find the minimum percentage of employees at this company who have one-way commuting times in the following intervals. 

      i. 14 to 54 minutes ii. 18 to 50 minutes

b. Using Chebyshev's theorem, find the interval that contains one-way commuting times of at least 89% of the employees at this company.

 

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