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The original WOA has already proven itself as an algorithm with excellent results; therefore, a wide variety of improvements have been made to it. Herein, the main purpose is to provide a hybridization of the WOA algorithm employing fuzzy logic to find the appropriate values of the r\u21921 and r\u21922 parameters that can optimize the mathematical functions used in this study, thereby providing an improvement to the original WOA algorithm. The performance of the fuzzy WOA using IT2FLS (FWOA-IT2FLS) shows good results in the case study of the benchmark function optimization. An important comparative with other metaheuristics is also presented. A statistical test and the comparative with other bio-inspired algorithms, namely, the original WOA with type-1 FLS (FWOA-T1FLS) are analyzed. 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