With my statistics homework. i have no clue..
"a factory has a machine that makes steel rods. the length of the rods that the machine makes follows a normal distribution curve with a mean of 11.5 feet and a standard deviation of 0.3 feet. the factory manager does not want to use the rods from the bottom 20% and the top 15%. find the rod lengths the manager will be using as the basis for separating the rods."

11.218  - 11.812 feet

Step-by-step explanation:

The factory manager does not want to use the rods from the bottom 20% and the top 15%. In other words, the factory manager doesn't want percentile 0-20 and percentile 85-100.

To solve this question, you need to know the z score of percentile 20 and 85.  

Z-score of percentile 20 is -0.94, then the calculation will be :  

x=  11.5 feet+ 0.3 feet* z-score  

x=  11.5 feet+ 0.3 feet* (-0.94)

x=  11.5 feet-  0.282 feet

x=  11.218 feet  

Z-score of percentile 85 is +1.04 then the calculation will be :  

x=  11.5 feet+ 0.3 feet* z-score  

x=  11.5 feet+ 0.3 feet* 1.04

x=  11.5 feet+ 0.312 feet  

x=  11.812 feet

The range for the rod will be  11.218  - 11.812 feet

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