A company has a policy of retiring company cars; this policy looks at number of miles driven, purpose of trips, style of car and other features. The distribution of the number of months in service for the fleet of cars is bell-shaped and has a mean of 55 months and a standard deviation of 8 months. Using the Empirical Rule rule, what is the approximate percentage of cars that remain in service between 63 and 71 months?

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Z = (score-mean)/SD

Find table in the back of your statistics text labeled something like "areas under normal distribution" to find the proportion/probability between the two Z scores. Multiply by 100.