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Serum cholesterol concentrations are measured as ...


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submitted by strugglebus(43),

So you know that 65% of the data will fall within 1SD of the mean. So if you subtract 100-65 you will get 35. Which means that about 16% will fall above and 16% will fall below 1 SD. They are asking for how many will fall above 1 SD. I'm sure there is a better way of doing this, but thats how I got it lol.

sympathetikey  Same! +  
sympathetikey  Except according to FA, it's 68% within 1 SD, so 34%, which split in half is 17%. +