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6.2 Exercise 19

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A citrus farmer who grows mandarin oranges finds that the diameters of mandarin oranges harvested on his farm follow a normal distribution with a mean diameter of 5.85 cm and a standard deviation of 0.24 cm.

c. Find the 90th percentile for the diameters of mandarin oranges, and interpret it in a complete sentence.

OpenStax Statistics, 6.2 Using the Normal Distribution, exercise 19

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