1. a) The speed of vehicles passing on a bridge follows a normal distribution with a mean of  65 mph and a standard deviation of 8mph. Find the probability that a randomly selected  vehicle will have a speed of more than 72 miles per hour [4]  b) 65% of the vehicles have a speed of less than x mph. Find the value of x. [4]

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1. a) The speed of vehicles passing on a bridge follows a normal distribution with a mean of  65 mph and a standard deviation of 8mph. Find the probability that a randomly selected  vehicle will have a speed of more than 72 miles per hour [4] 

b) 65% of the vehicles have a speed of less than x mph. Find the value of x. [4] 

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