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7.2 Exercise 17

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Use the following information to answer the next six exercises: A researcher measures the amount of sugar in several cans of the same soda. The mean is 39.01 with a standard deviation of 0.5. The researcher randomly selects a sample of 100.

Find the probability that the sum of the 100 values is less than 3,900.

OpenStax Introductory Statistics 2e, 7.2 The Central Limit Theorem for Sums, exercise 17

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