hi!! please help 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."

Answer:11.218  - 11.812 feetStep-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