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A small upstart company, Rapide, manufactures high-speed hard drives for laptops. Their new hard drive, the Rapide2010, is manufactured so that the number of reading errors per MB of data forms a normal distribution, with a mean of 4.2 errors / MB and a standard deviation of 1.3 errors / MB.

If Bell Computers buys 15 Rapide2010s to put into their new prototypes, what is the probability that they will have on average no more than 3.5 errors / MB of data?

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The solution provides step by step method for the calculation of probability using the Z score. Formula for the calculation and Interpretations of the results are also included.

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