as an avid fisherman, nick was curious if the advertised strength of fishing line is accurate. to investigate, he used "6 pound" fishing line to hang a bucket, which he then filled with weights until the line broke. then nick measured the total weight of the bucket and its contents to determine the breaking strength of that piece of fishing line. after trying this with many different sections of the fishing line, he estimated that the distribution of breaking strength for this type of line is approximately normal with a mean of 6.44 pounds and a standard deviation of 0.75 pound.
