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Terri Vogel, an amateur motorcycle racer, averages 129.71 seconds per 2.5 mile lap (in a seven-lap race) with a standard deviation of 2.28 seconds. The distribution of her race times is
A) Find the percent of her laps that are completed in less than 130 seconds
B) The fastest 4% of her laps are under how many seconds?
C) The middle 80% of her lap times are from _____seconds to _____ seconds.
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