Begin 	End 	Length 
0	0.69	0.69
0.89	1.23	0.34
1.78	1.93	0.15
2.48	2.93	0.45
3.06	3.37	0.31
4.04	4.22	0.18
4.35	4.53	0.18
4.66	4.77	0.11
4.81	5.01	0.2
5.61	5.88	0.27
5.96	6.24	0.28
6.57	6.7	0.13
6.91	7	0.09
7.07	7.55	0.48
7.91	8.28	0.37
8.37	8.51	0.14
8.79	9.94	1.15
10.77	11.14	0.37
11.72	11.85	0.13
11.93	12.43	0.5
12.72	13.09	0.37
13.29	13.71	0.42
13.96	14.28	0.32
14.51	14.82	0.31
14.98	15.45	0.47
15.71	16	0.29
16.03	16.41	0.38
17.33	17.8	0.47
17.83	18.02	0.19
18.91	19.26	0.35
19.62	19.96	0.34
20.19	21.31	1.12
21.65	21.91	0.26
22.17	22.64	0.47
22.9	23.08	0.18
23.29	23.4	0.11
23.63	24.07	0.44
24.41	24.59	0.18
24.82	24.97	0.15
25.25	25.43	0.18
26.86	26.98	0.12
27.05	27.37	0.32
27.83	28.03	0.2
28.35	28.44	0.09
28.52	29.33	0.81
29.78	30.42	0.64
31.5	31.84	0.34
31.9	32.17	0.27
33.16	33.55	0.39
33.61	34.07	0.46
34.52	35	0.48
37.61	37.82	0.21
37.89	38.26	0.37
38.68	38.77	0.09
38.83	38.92	0.09
39.03	39.11	0.08
39.42	39.47	0.05
39.77	40	0.23
40.03	40.25	0.22
40.71	40.97	0.26
41.15	41.46	0.31
41.52	41.96	0.44
42.28	43.26	0.98
43.34	43.56	0.22
43.64	44.01	0.37
44.21	44.69	0.48
44.77	45.24	0.47
45.32	45.79	0.47
46.76	47.26	0.5
47.91	49.58	1.67
52.41	54.16	1.75
55.92	56.66	0.74
58.04	58.94	0.9
59.43	59.69	0.26
60.01	60.53	0.52
62.75	63.28	0.53
64.14	64.62	0.48
66.65	67.1	0.45
67.77	68.51	0.74
68.84	69.44	0.6
69.93	71.12	1.19
71.22	72.11	0.89
74.17	74.3	0.13

what type of distribution best desribes the time spent in this normal state?

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Clarification of Question by spankywanki-ga on 06 Dec 2004 13:15 PST

this question is referring to the use of data analysis using excel

The data in the third column are consistent with a lognormal distribution.