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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 38 ounces and a standard deviation of 9 ounces.
Use the Empirical Rule.
Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions.
a) 99.7% of the widget weights lie between ______ and_______
b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 20 and 65 ounces? ______
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