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A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean m. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation d of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than m + d ?

(A) 16%
(B) 32%
(C) 48%
(D) 84%
(E) 92%
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A certain characteristic in a large population has a distribution that is symmetric about the mean m. If 68 percent of the distribution lies within one standard deviation d of the mean, what percent of the distribution is less than m + d ?

(A) 16%
(B) 32%
(C) 48%
(D) 84%
(E) 92%


Given that 68% lies between m-d and m+d, thus 32% lies out of this range.

Now, since the distribution is symmetric about m, then half of the 32%, so 16%, lies to the right of m+d. Therefore, 16% lies to the right of m+d, and hence 84% lies to the left of m+d, which means that 84% is less than m+d.

Answer: D.

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