The Acme Company manufactures widgets. The distribution of
widget weights is bell-shaped. The widget weights have a mean of 56
ounces and a standard deviation of 6 ounces.
Use the Standard Deviation Rule, also known as the Empirical
Rule.
Suggestion: sketch the distribution in order to answer these
questions.
a) 95% of the widget weights lie between and
b) What percentage of the widget weights lie between 50 and 68
ounces? %
c) What percentage of the widget weights lie below 74
? %
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