A population of widgets produced by a machine has weights with mean of 200mg and standard deviation of 10mg. if a random sample of 36 widgets were taken, what is the probability that the total weight is at most 3100mg?

A population of widgets produced by a machine has weights with mean of 200mg and standard deviation of 10mg. if a random sample of 36 widgets were taken, what is the probability that the total weight is at most 3100mg?

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