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A publisher has discovered that the number of words contained in a new manuscript is normally distributed with a mean equal to 20,000 words in

A publisher has discovered that the number of words contained in a new manuscript is normally distributed with a mean equal to 20,000 words in excess of that specified in the authorss contract and a standard deviation of 10,000 words. If the publisher wants to be almost certain (say with a probability of .95) that the manuscript will be less than 100,000 words, what number of words should the publisher specify in the contract?

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