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SCENARIO 6-5
A company producing orange juice buys all its oranges from a large orange orchard.The amount of juice that can be squeezed from each of these oranges is approximately normally distributed with a mean of 4.7 ounces and some unknown standard deviation.The company's production manager knows that the probability is 30.85% that a randomly selected orange will contain less than 4.5 ounces of juice.Also,the probability is 10.56% that a randomly selected orange will contain more than 5.2 ounces of juice.Answer the following questions without the help of a calculator,statistical software or statistical table.
-Referring to Scenario 6-5,what is the probability that a randomly selected orange will contain between 4.5 and 5.2 ounces of juices?


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