The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 264 days and a standard deviation of 15 days. a) In what range would you expect to find the middle 50% of most pregnancies? b) If you were to draw samples of size 47 from this population, in what range would you expect to find the middle 50% of most averages for the lengths of pregnancies in the sample?

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The lengths of pregnancies in a small rural village are normally distributed with a mean of 264 days and a standard deviation of 15 days.

a) In what range would you expect to find the middle 50% of most pregnancies?

b) If you were to draw samples of size 47 from this population, in what range would you expect to find the middle 50% of most averages for the lengths of pregnancies in the sample?

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