The speed of cars  on a specific road is normally distributed with a mean of 54 mph and a standard deviation of 3. The top 2.5% of cars are traveling at at least what mph?

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  1. The speed of cars  on a specific road is normally distributed with a mean of 54 mph and a standard deviation of 3. The top 2.5% of cars are traveling at at least what mph?

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 Let us denote X= The speed of cars  on a specific roadGiven that X follows a normal distribution with mean=54 and standard deviation= 3Let the least mph is K for which 2.5% cars are above it.  

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