The Owner of a Fish Market Determined That the Average

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Short Answer

The owner of a fish market determined that the average weight for a catfish is 3.2 pounds with a standard deviation of 0.8 pound. Assuming the weights of catfish are normally distributed, the probability that a randomly selected catfish will weigh between 3 and 5 pounds is ________.

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Definitions:

Expand

To multiply out the terms of an expression.

Properties

Characteristics or attributes that help to define mathematical operations or objects.

Logarithms

The exponent or power to which a base number must be raised to produce a given value, which is the inverse operation of exponentiation.

Expand

In mathematics, to expand an expression means to simplify it by distributing and combining like terms.