Diet Researchers Studying the Effects of a New Diet Found

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Essay

Diet Researchers studying the effects of a new diet found that the weight loss over a one-month period by those on the diet was normally distributed with a mean of 10 pounds and a standard deviation of 5 pounds. {Diet Narrative} If a dieter is selected at random, what is the probability that the dieter lost more than 7.5 pounds?

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Agency by Estoppel

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