For the first part, suppose we want to know approximately how much data falls within 2 standard deviations from the mean using Chebyshev's theorem. This is how we do it. We square the standard deviations first to get 4. Then we take 1/4. Now simple subtract 1/4 from 1 to get 3/4. Therefore at least 75% of the data will fall within 2 st dev from the mean. In this problem we don't know the standard deviations, but we know it has to be at least 70%. So we basically are working in reverse now.
That means that 1 - .3 = .7........... therefore .3 = 1/(standard deviations)^2
.3(standard deviations)^2 = 1
divide by .3 to get (standard deviations)^2 = 3.33, therefore standard deviations = 1.83
We know that at least 70% of the data falls within 1.83 standard deviations from the mean.
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For the second part, we simply get the mean and standard deviation of the data set. I did it on my calculator and get mean = 5 and st dev = 1.777
Therefore to see the range of values that are within 1.83 st deviations, take 5 +/- 1.83(1.777)
That gives us 1.75 and 8.25. Look at the data and you see the lowest value is 2.22 and the highest is 8.11, so ALL of the data, 100% fall within the range.