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The ages of all new mothers have a mean of 30.0 years and a standard deviation of 3.0 years. Provide answers correct to one decimal place below. Assuming that the data is normally distributed, the percentage of new mothers aged less than 24.5 years is ___% in the population.

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The percentage of new mothers below the given age is calculated using the normal curve.

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