System memory usage seems high

hello. i have a 3 month old macbook pro 13 and when i just looked on activity monitor with no programs running but airport on it said i was using 2.28 gigs of system memory and 1.72 gigs was free. does that seem normal? the only program on here that didn't come stock is iwork. and as i said, nothing was running at the time. thanks.

When you look in the Activity Monitor, what is listed for inactive memory? As the linked article indicates, inactive memory is memory that was in use by another application that was closed and can either be reused by the application if you reopen it or can be used by any other application. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1342?viewlocale=en_us
So if your inactive memory is high, then you shouldn't spend too much time worrying about the amount that is "free" because the inactive memory is essentially free.

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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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    (7 row(s) affected)
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