Assume that a similar boat is loaded with 5050 passengers, and assume that the weights of people are normally distributed with a mean of 176.6176.6 lb and a standard deviation of 38.238.2 lb. Find the probability that the boat is overloaded because the 5050 passengers have a mean weight greater than 139139 lb.
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