Answer
$N=491$
Work Step by Step
We know that:
$N=\frac{\lambda_{avg}}{m\Delta \lambda}$
We plug in the known values to obtain:
$N=\frac{\frac{589.6nm+589.0nm}{2}}{2(589.6nm-589.0nm)}=491$
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