I am having a hard time understanding the following. The information leading up to the question goes as follows:
" A major cab company in Chicago has computed its mean fare from O'Hare Airport to the Drake Hotel to be $26.49, with a standard deviation of $3.35. Based on this information, complete the following statements about the distribution of the company's fares from the airport to the hotel."
The question states that:
"According to Chebyshev's theorem,at least _% of the fares lie between 19.79 dollars and 33.19 dollars."
My question is Chebyshev's theorem states [100(1-1/ksquared)]%. It says to first find the standard deviations first then the theorem, which is:
19.79-26.49/3.35=-2 and 33.19-26.49/3.35=2.
I am not understanding where the 2 and -2 are coming from. Can anyone please help me to understand this in the simplest terms. PLEASE!!!!!
Thank you.





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