4 By the numbers . Suppose that the voting population consists of 5,000 people. The median voter would like to have a police budget of $650,000. The standard deviation is

$50,000. You support a policy budget of $600,000. What percentage of voters are with you on that decision? (Hint: 66 percent of the population is within one standard deviation of the mean and 95 percent of the population is within two standard deviations of the mean, so your supporters fall within two standard deviations to the left and one standard deviation to the right.) How would your answer be different if the standard deviation was only $15,000?