The empirical rule state that, for normally distributed data, almost all of the data fall within three standard deviations either side of the mean. Specifically,
-68% of data within 1 standard deviation.
-95% of data within 2 standard deviation
-99.7 of data within 3 standard deviation.
In our case the mean is
[tex]\mu=24[/tex]
and the standard deviation is
[tex]\sigma=5[/tex]
then, the empirical formula imply that
[tex]\begin{gathered} \mu-2\sigma=24-2\cdot5 \\ \mu-2\sigma=24-10 \\ \mu-2\sigma=14 \end{gathered}[/tex]
and
[tex]\begin{gathered} \mu+2\sigma=24+2\cdot10 \\ \mu+2\sigma=24+10 \\ \mu+2\sigma=34 \end{gathered}[/tex]
then, the answer is 14 minutes to 34 minutes
