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5.3 Finding Percentiles of the Normal Curve (Using the Table in Reverse)

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Women’s heights are normally distributed with a mean of 63.6 and a standard deviation of 2.5. If a women’s clothing manufacture decides due to costs and demand that they do not want to produce sizes that fit the very shortest or the very tallest 2.5% of women, what cutoff sizes will separate the shortest and tallest 2.5% of woman’s sizes from the rest?

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