Suppose that the duration of a particular type of criminal trial is known to be normally distributed with a mean of 21 days and a standard deviation of 4 days. Let X be the number of days for a randomly selected trial. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible. a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(     ?   ,   ?   ) b. If one of the trials is randomly chosen, find the probability that it lasted at least 22 days.      ? c. If one of the trials is randomly chosen, find the probability that it lasted between 22 and 28 days.      ?

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Suppose that the duration of a particular type of criminal trial is known to be normally distributed with a mean of 21 days and a standard deviation of 4 days. Let X be the number of days for a randomly selected trial. Round all answers to 4 decimal places where possible.

a. What is the distribution of X? X ~ N(     ?   ,   ?   )

b. If one of the trials is randomly chosen, find the probability that it lasted at least 22 days.      ?

c. If one of the trials is randomly chosen, find the probability that it lasted between 22 and 28 days.      ?

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