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6.3 Exercise 46

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Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: The length of time it takes to find a parking space at 9 A.M. follows a normal distribution with a mean of five minutes and a standard deviation of two minutes.

A tree in an orchard has 200 oranges. Of the oranges, 40 are not ripe. Use the normal distribution to approximate the binomial distribution, and determine the probability a box containing 35 oranges has at most two oranges that are not ripe.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 6.3 Estimating the Binomial with the Normal Distribution, exercise 46

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