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In a normal distribution, what is the probability that a randomly selected data value will fall within two standard deviations of the mean? Give your answer as a whole number percent.

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The answer is 95%

This is something you should memorize. Specifically it is from the Empirical Rule (or 68-95-99.7 rule) which gives rough approximations of areas under the curve.
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