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Transcribed Image Text:The amount of time that a
drive-through bank teller spends on a customer is a random
variable with a mean u = 3.2 minutes and a standard deviation = 1.6 minutes. A
random sample of 64 customers is observed.
(a) State the central Limit theorem;
(b) Find the probability that their mean time at the teller's counter is more than 3.5
minutes:
Note that F(1.5) = ¹.5dx=0.9332
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