Tom works for a fruit company and found that the weight of pineapples are normally distributed with mean = 500 grams and standard deviation = 100 grams. If he randomly chooses 16 pineapples and measure their weights,what is the probability that the average weight x̅ is more than 475 grams?

Tom works for a fruit company and found that the weight of pineapples are normally distributed with mean = 500 grams and standard deviation = 100 grams. If he randomly chooses 16 pineapples and measure their weights,what is the probability that the average weight x̅ is more than 475 grams?

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