Working in the garden pulling weeds/planting flowers burns an average of 200 calories per hour. If we assume the variable is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 9 calories, find the probability that a person who works in the garden for 1 hour will burn between 190 and 215 calories per hour

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Working in the garden pulling weeds/planting flowers burns an average of 200 calories per hour. If we assume the variable is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 9 calories, find the probability that a person who works in the garden for 1 hour will burn between 190 and 215 calories per hour.
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It is given that 

Mean, μ = 200

Standard deviation, σ = 9

Z-Score, Z = ( X - μ )/σ

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