A manufacturing company's manufactures steel rods. The lengths of the rods are normally distributed with a mean length of 12 cm and a standard deviation of 0.25 cm. Rods that are too long or too short will be rejected. Supposed the company decided to reject the 5% of the rods that are outside a specified range(too long or too short). Determin the lengths of the rods that will be rejected.

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A manufacturing company's manufactures steel rods. The lengths of the rods are normally distributed with a mean length of 12 cm and a standard deviation of 0.25 cm. Rods that are too long or too short will be rejected. Supposed the company decided to reject the 5% of the rods that are outside a specified range(too long or too short). Determin the lengths of the rods that will be rejected. 

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