Using diaries for many weeks, a study on the lifestyles of visually impaired students was conducted. The students kept track of many lifestyle variables including how many hours of sleep obtained on a typical day. Researchers found that visually impaired students averaged 8.28.2 hours of sleep, with a standard deviation of 2.22.2 hours. Assume that the number of hours of sleep for these visually impaired students is normally distributed. (a)  What is the probability

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 Using diaries for many weeks, a study on the lifestyles of visually impaired students was conducted. The students kept track of many lifestyle variables including how many hours of sleep obtained on a typical day. Researchers found that visually impaired students averaged 8.28.2 hours of sleep, with a standard deviation of 2.22.2 hours. Assume that the number of hours of sleep for these visually impaired students is normally distributed.

(a)  What is the probability that a visually impaired student gets less than 6.56.5 hours of sleep?

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(b)  What is the probability that a visually impaired student gets between 6.96.9 and 10.6810.68 hours of sleep?

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(c)  Twenty percent of students get less than how many hours of sleep on a typical day?

answer:  hours

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