SOLUTION: Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 180 cm and a standard deviation of 9 cm. Using the empirical rule, what is the approximate percenta

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Question 781232: Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 180 cm and a standard deviation of 9 cm. Using the empirical rule, what is the approximate percentage of the men between 171 cm and 189 cm?
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Heights of men on a baseball team have a bell-shaped distribution with a mean of 180 cm and a standard deviation of 9 cm. Using the empirical rule, what is the approximate percentage of the men between 171 cm and 189 cm?
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Find the z-values of 171 and of 189
Find the percentage of z between those z-values.
Ans:: 0.6827
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Stan H.