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The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 44 ounces and a standard deviation of 10 ounces. Use the Empirical Rule. Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these questions. a) 95% of the widget weights lie between 34 and 54 b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 34 and 64 ounces

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a) No 95% of values will fall between (24;64); 68,27% will fall between (34;54)

b)71,83 % will fall between 34 and 64 ounces

Explanation:

Empirical rule establishes, for a normal distribution with mean μ and σ as standard deviation:

In interval μ ± σ or ( μ + σ ; μ - σ) we should find 68.27 % of all values of the population, and by simmetry 68.27/2 = 34,14 % should be over the mean and the other half would be values below the mean

Therefore in our case

μ + σ = 44 + 10 = 54

And

μ - σ = 44 - 10 = 34

a) Then 68,34 % of values will fall in this interval

We know now that value 34 is 1* σ below the mean, and is at the limit of 34,14 %

b) μ + 2*σ = 44 * 2*10 = 44 + 20 = 64

64 is the upper limit for the interval μ + 2*σ and we know that 95.45 % of all values will fall between ( μ - 2*σ ; μ + 2*σ ) and by simmetry just one side of this interval (the right side ) will have 95.45/2 = 47;73 %

Then in interval going from ( 34 ; 64 ) we shoud find 47.73 + 34,14

71,83 % of all values will fall between 34 and 64

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