The number of potato chips in a bag is normally distributed with a mean of 74 and and a standard deviation of 4. approximately what percent of bags contain between 62 and86 potato chips?

99.8%  is the percent of bags contain between 62 and 86 potato chips.

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following information in the question:

Mean, μ = 74

Standard Deviation, σ = 4

We are given that the distribution of number of potato chips in a bag is a bell shaped distribution that is a normal distribution.

Formula:

P( bags contain between 62 and 86 potato chips)

, and

for

step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for