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On average, indoor cats live to 16 years old with a standard deviation of 2.6 years. Suppose that the distribution is normal. Let X = the age at death of a randomly selected indoor cat.
- The middle 40% of indoor cats' age of death lies between what two numbers?
Low: in years?
High: in years?
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