**Problem 1: Donation Spending Analysis**When going door-to-door asking for donations, the amount of money spent by those who donate is modeled by an approximate normal distribution with a mean of $12 and a standard deviation of $4.**Questions:**(a) What is the probability that the next person who makes a donation will donate more than $20?(b) What is the probability that the next person who makes a donation spends between $8 and $14?

GivenMean(μ)=12standard deviation(σ)=4

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