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Eddie's Bicycle Shop has a thriving business repairing bicycles. Trisha runs the reception area where customers check in their bicycles to be repaired and then later pick up their bicycles and pay their bills. She estimates that the time required to serve a customer on each visit has a uniform distribution between three minutes and eight minutes.

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Use Excel to generate $500$ random observations. Calculate the average service$-$time. Compare the average of the $500$ random observations to the mean of the service$-$time distribution.

Calculate the average service time.

Note: Round your answer to $3$ decimal places.

Average $=$ minutes