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can someone guide me through part (a) ii of this question please. I just can't seem to understand it at all.

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For a Normal Distribution, 99% of the distribution lie within the limits Mu +/- 3 times sigma.
Also 95% of the distribution lie within the limits Mu +/- 1.96 times sigma.

So perhaps one of these limits is more than 60000, which would make the normal distribution unsuitable.

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