(a) The life time of a certain brand of bulbs produced by a company is normally 15 distributed, with mean 210 hours and standard deviation 56 hours. What is the probability that a bulb picked at random from this company's products will have a life time of: () at least 300 hours,

(a) The life time of a certain brand of bulbs produced by a company is normally 15 distributed, with mean 210 hours and standard deviation 56 hours. What is the probability that a bulb picked at random from this company's products will have a life time of: () at least 300 hours,

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