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At an ice cream company, the machine that fills 1-pound cartons of ice cream is set to dispense 16 ounces of ice cream into every carton. However, some cartons contain slightly less than and some contain slightly more than 16 ounces of ice cream. The amounts of ice cream in all such cartons have a
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