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Aishka is 67-inch-tall, and she weighs 135 lbs. If the medium height of Puerto Rican women has a normal distribution with µ = 65 inch tall with standard deviation of 2.5 inches, and the weight of the women has a normal distribution µ = 125 lbs with a standard deviation of 10 lbs. Determine what is the most usual and common characteristic of Aishka, her height or weight when compared with Puerto Rican women. Evaluate your analysis and be explicit in your argumentation and present the graphs of the problem

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