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Men's heights are normally distributed with mean 69.3 inand standard deviation 2.94 in. Women's heights are normally distributed with mean 63.8 inand standard deviation 2.8 in. The navy requires that fighter pilots have heights between 62in. And 78in. What percentage of women are bot qualified because they are too short or too tall?
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