he Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 57 ounces and a standard deviation of 6 ounces. Use the Empirical Rule. Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions. a) 68% of the widget weights lie between  and  b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 45 and 63 ounces?  % c) What percentage of the widget weights lie above 39 ?

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Section10.4: Distributions Of Data
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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 57 ounces and a standard deviation of 6 ounces.

Use the Empirical Rule.

Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions.

a) 68% of the widget weights lie between  and 

b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 45 and 63 ounces?  %

c) What percentage of the widget weights lie above 39 ? 

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