THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

question 187

Multiple Choice

THE NEXT QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
The number of nails in a five-pound box of nails is normally distributed with a mean of 563.3 and a standard deviation of 33.2.
-What is the probability that there are less than 500 nails in a randomly-selected five-pound box of nails?

• A)0.5287
• B)0.4730
• C)0.0281
• D)0.9713

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