An elevator can safely hold 3500 pounds. A sign in the elevator limits the passenger count to 15. If the adult population has a mean weight of 180 pounds with a 25-pound standard deviation, how unusual would it be, if the central limit theorem applied, that an elevator holding 15 people would be carrying more than 3500 pounds? Note. Use pnorm which is the normal distribution function of R.

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An elevator can safely hold 3500 pounds. A sign in the elevator limits the passenger count to 15. If the adult population has a mean weight of 180 pounds with a 25-pound standard deviation, how unusual would it be, if the central limit theorem applied, that an elevator holding 15 people would be carrying more than 3500 pounds? 

Note. Use pnorm which is the normal distribution function of R.

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