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Exam P Practice Question 906

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An actuary models the weight of a randomly selected adult using a normal distribution with mean \mu and standard deviation \sigma. It is given that P[X < \mu - \sigma] = 0.16 and that P[X > \mu + \sigma] = 0.16.

Calculate P[\mu - \sigma < X < \mu + \sigma].

  • A) 0.32
  • B) 0.50
  • C) 0.60
  • D) 0.68
  • E) 0.84

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