Customers at the restaurant have to wait an average of 25 minutes before they receive their meal from the time their order was placed. Assume these waiting times are normally distributed with a standard deviation of 5 minutes. Question: What is the probability that a randomly selected customer waits between 20 and 35 minutes before receiving his meal from the time his order was placed?

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Customers at the restaurant have to wait an average of 25 minutes before they receive their meal
from the time their order was placed. Assume these waiting times are normally distributed with a
standard deviation of 5 minutes.

Question: What is the probability that a randomly selected customer waits between 20 and 35 minutes before
receiving his meal from the time his order was placed?

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