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In a 15-day period, the amount of growth for a population of sunflower plants was found to be a Normal distribution with mean 3.18 cm and standard deviation 0.52 cm. If a sample of 100 plants were selected, what is the probability that the sample mean is greater than 3.31 cm?
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