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question 25

Multiple Choice

If we know that the length of time it takes a college student to find a parking spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 3.5 minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute,find the probability that a randomly selected college student will find a parking spot in the library parking lot in less than 3 minutes.

• A)0.3551
• B)0.3085
• C)0.2674
• D)0.1915

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