Fertility Rates. From the U.S. Census Bureau, in the document International Data Base, we obtained data on the total fertility rates for women in various countries. Those data are presented on the WeissStats site. The total fertility rate gives the average number of children that would be born if all women in a given country lived to the end of their childbearing years and, at each year of age, they experienced the birth rates occurring in the specified year. Use the technology of your choice to decide whether total fertility rates for countries appear to be approximately normally distributed. Explain your answer.

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