An intern in the endocrinology department is tasked with doing a chart review of all patients hospitalized with diabetes-related cardiovascular problems in the previous 6 months. According to the intern's early data analysis, there were 400 such patients, and their blood cholesterol levels were regularly distributed, with a mean of 220 mg/dL and a standard deviation of 10 mg/dL. Based on these findings, how many individuals in this research could be predicted to have blood cholesterol levels more than 240 mg/dL?

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Eductional Objective: In a normal (bell-shaped) distribution: 68% of all values are within 1 standard deviation from the mean; 95% of all values are within 2 standard deviations from the mean; 99.7% of all values are within 3 standard deviations from the mean.

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