26. During the spring semester of 1995 at the University of Flonda, coinputer usage of stu- dents having accounts on a mainframe computer at the university was summarized by a mean of 1921 and a standard deviation of 11,495 kilobytes of drive usage.

a) Does the Empirical Rule apply to this distribution? Why?

b) Would you expect this distribution to be syminetric, skewed to the right, or skewed to the left? Explain

c) What could cause the standard deviation to be so large coinpared to the mean? (Data supplied by Dr Michael Conlon, University of Florida.)