Question: Pregnancies and the 68-95-99.7 rule. The length of human pregnancies from conception to birth varies according to a distribution that is approximately Normal with mean 266 days and standard deviation 16 days. Use the 68-95-99.7 rule to answer the following questions.

(a) Between what values do the lengths of the middle 95% of all pregnancies fall?

(b) How short are the shortest 2.5% of all pregnancies? How long do the longest 2.5% last?