How to solve one-sided and two-sided Chebyshev's inequality?

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The man earns Xn bitcoins on day n, where Xn are independent and identically distributed random variable with mean 6 and Var = 9. Use one-sided and two-sided Chebyshev's inequality to solve estimate the probability that the total amount the man earns in 100 days is less than 510

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One sided Chebychev's inequality:

$$P(X\le \mu - a) \le \frac{\sigma^2}{\sigma^2 + a^2}\tag1$$

$$P(X\ge \mu + a) \le \frac{\sigma^2}{\sigma^2 + a^2}\tag2$$

$E(X_i) = 6,E (X) = E(100 X) =100E(X_i) = 600$

$Var (X_i) = 9, Var(X) = Var(nX_i) = nVar(X_i) = 900$

Using (1) $$P(X<510) = P(X\le 600 - 90) \le \frac{900}{900 + 8100} = \frac{1}{10}$$

Using (2)$$P(X>690) = P(X\le 600 + 90) \le \frac{900}{900 + 8100} = \frac{1}{10}$$

Two Sided Chebychev's inequality, you get a relaxed bound

$$P(|X-\mu| > t) \le \frac{\sigma^2}{t^2}\tag3$$

Using (3) $$P(|X-600| > 90) =P(X-600>90) + P(X-600<-90) = P(X>690) + P(X<510) \le \frac{900}{8100} = \frac{1}{9}$$

$$P(X>690) + P(X<510) \le \frac{1}{9}$$

$$P(X<510) \le \frac{1}{9}$$