The weight of a small Starbucks coffee is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of 360 grams and a standard deviation of 9 grams. Find the weight that corresponds to each event. (Use Excel or Appendix C to calculate the z-value. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.) a) Highest 10% b) Middle 50% c) highest 80% d) lowest 10%

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The weight of a small Starbucks coffee is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of 360 grams and a standard deviation of 9 grams. Find the weight that corresponds to each event. (Use Excel or Appendix C to calculate the z-value. Round your final answers to 2 decimal places.)

a) Highest 10%

b) Middle 50%

c) highest 80%

d) lowest 10%

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