The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 54 ounces and a standard deviation of 9 ounces. Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the Empirical Rule (see image below). Do not use normalcdf on your calculator. 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 45 and 81 ounces? % c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 72 ?

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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 54 ounces and a standard deviation of 9 ounces.

Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the Empirical Rule (see image below).  Do not use normalcdf on your calculator.

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 45 and 81 ounces?  %

c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 72 ? 

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