Professors at a local university earn an average salary of $90,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. The salary distribution is bell-shaped. Using the Empirical Rule, what can be said about the percentage of salaries that are between $82,000 and $98,000?

a) It is about 68%.
b) It is about 84%.
c) It is about 95%.
d) It is about 97.5%.