A seafood shop sells salmon fillets where the weight of each fillet is normally distributed with a mean of 1.6 pounds and a standard deviation of 0.3 pounds. They want to classify the largest fillets as extra large and charge a higher price for them

If they want the largest 15 percent of the fillets to be classified as extra large, the minimum weight for an extra large fillet should be 1.91 pounds. Indicate whether the statement is true or false


TRUE

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