36. The time a student spends learning a computer software package is normally distributed with a mean of 8 hours and standard deviation of 1.5 hours. A student is selected at random. What is the probability that the student spends less than 6 hours learning a software package? A. 1 B. 0.21 C. 0.15 D. 0.09
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