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7.4 Exercise 8

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Cars pass an automatic speed check device that monitors 2,000 cars on a given day. This population of cars has an average speed of 67 miles per hour with a standard deviation of 2 miles per hour. If samples of 30 cars are taken, what is the probability a given sample will have an average speed within 0.50 mile per hour of the population mean?

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