The average age of a breed of dog is 19.5 years. If the distribution of their ages is normal and 20% of dogs are older than 22.6 years, find the standard deviation.

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".