Brand new MacBook Pro Retina is in fact 2 months old?

I just got a brand new out of the box MBP retina Late 2013. It was a replacement for my old Early 2013 faulty MBP retina. I am very thankful to Apple because my previous MBP was a faulty mess.
I have 2 enquiries as to whether this new MBP has been used previously:
1) The app "Battery Health" lists the MBP as being 2.1 months old and having 3 cycles of charge already. Is that consistent with this being an unused and new MBP?
2) The MBP has come with Pages, Keynote and Numbers installed!! I thought that these were apps you had to pay for and my previous MacBook certainly did not come with them. Do MBP come with these apps free these days? I have just been told that the iWork suite is free and installed for MacBooks activated after September 2013. Which just leaves my first question I suppose!
I am just worried that it has been used and abandoned and I'll have to go through the whole process again of having a dodgy MBP.
Thanks

From what I've heard and read the iWork apps aren't normally installed. But that might of been with systems bought right after the notice of those apps being available for free with a Purchase of a New Mac.
Apple's manufacturers product many units each day. Some sit for weeks or more waiting to be shipped out and or in the Apple warehouse waiting to be bought. I wouldn't worry about it and it seems the 3 cycle count is fairly normal with the Retina models.

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