The weekly salaries of 5,000 employees of a large corporation are assumed to be normally distributed with mean $450 and standard deviation $40. If an employee is selected at random, find the probability that he or she makes less than $480. Select one: O a. 0.7734 O b. 0.125 O.0.7814 O d. 0.1367

The weekly salaries of 5,000 employees of a large corporation are assumed to be normally distributed with mean $450 and standard deviation $40. If an employee is selected at random, find the probability that he or she makes less than $480. Select one: O a. 0.7734 O b. 0.125 O.0.7814 O d. 0.1367

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deviation $40. If an employee is selected at random, find the probability that he or she makes less than $480.
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O a.0.7734
O b.0.125
O c.0.7814
O d. 0.1367

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