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Transcribed Image Text:The length of time it takes a college student to find a parking spot in the library parking lot follows a normal distribution with a mean of 7.0 minutes and a standard deviation of 1 minute. Find the
probability that a randomly selected college student will find a parking spot in the library
parking lot is less than 6.5 minutes.
A. .3551
B. 1915
C. .3085
D. .2674
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