The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 270.2 days and a standard deviation of 17.8 days. In what range would you expect to find the middle 98% of most pregnancies? Between_______  and__________ . Enter your answers as numbers. Your answers should be accurate to 1 decimal places.

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The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 270.2 days and a standard deviation of 17.8 days.

In what range would you expect to find the middle 98% of most pregnancies?

Between_______  and__________ .

Enter your answers as numbers. Your answers should be accurate to 1 decimal places.

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Let X be the length of pregnancies in a small rural village.

From the given information, X follows normal distribution with mean µ=270.2 days and a standard deviation σ=17.8 days.

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