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On average, indoor cats live to 14 years old with a standard deviation of 2.4 years. Suppose that the distribution is normal. Let X = the age at death of a randomly selected indoor cat. Round answers to 4 decimal places where possible.
a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(Correct,Correct)
b. Find the
c. The middle 40% of indoor cats' age of death lies between what two numbers?
Low: years
High: years
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