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Transcribed Image Text:Suppose the force acting on a column that helps to support a building is a normally distributed random variable X with mean value 19.0 kips and standard
deviation 1.50 kips. Compute the following probabilities by standardizing and then using a standard normal curve table from the Appendix Tables or SALT. (Round
your answers to four decimal places.)
n USE SALT
(a) P(X < 19)
(b) P(X < 20.5)
(c) P(X 2 11.5)
(d) P(17 s X S 22)
(e) P(IX – 19| S 1)
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