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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 less than 2.2 pounds is ________.


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Allergies

Immune system responses to foreign substances (allergens) that are typically harmless to most people, causing symptoms such as sneezing, itching, and swelling.

Bottle-feeding

Feeding a baby from a bottle filled with milk (either expressed breast milk or formula), as an alternative to breastfeeding, allowing others to feed the baby and facilitating measuring how much the baby consumes.

Standard Deviations

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean (average) of the data set.

Marasmus

A form of severe malnutrition characterized by energy deficiency.

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