The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 65 ounces and a standard deviation of 3 ounces. Use the Empirical Rule to answer the following: a) 95% of the widget weights lie between and b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 65 and 74 ounces? % c) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 62 and 68 ounces ?

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Chapter10: Statistics
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 65 ounces and a standard deviation of 3 ounces.

Use the Empirical Rule to answer the following:

a) 95% of the widget weights lie between and

b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 65 and 74 ounces? %

c) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 62 and 68 ounces ? 

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