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A coastguard station has a stock of 40 extra luminescent bulbs to maintain the light in a lighthouse. The lifetime of such a bulb is a random variable with a mean of 8 weeks and a standard deviation of 5 weeks. Assuming the life times of different bulbs are independent, approximate the
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