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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 35 ounces and a standard deviation of 6 ounces.
Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the
Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions.
a) 95% of the widget weights lie between ? and ?
b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 17 and 47 ounces? ? %
c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 41% ?
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