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Transcribed Image Text:Ray is an airline inspector and completed an average of u = 10 inspections each day. The distribution of daily
inspections is approximately normal with a standard deviation of o 2 inspections. For a randomly selected
day, what is the probability that Ray completes less than 9 inspections?
a) 0.3413
O b) 0.1587
c) 0.3085
d) 0.6915
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