Suppose the distribution of the time $X$ (in hours) spent by students at a certain university on a particular project is gamma with parameters $\alpha=50$ and $\beta=2 .$ Because $\alpha$ is large, it can be shown that $X$ has approximately a normal distribution. Use this fact to compute the approximate probability that a randomly selected student spends at most 125 hours on the project.

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Suppose the distribution of the time $X$ (in hours) spent by students at a certain university on a particular project is gamma with parameters $\alpha=50$ and $\beta=2 .$ Because $\alpha$ is large, it can be shown that $X$ has approximately a normal distribution. Use this fact to compute the approximate probability that a randomly selected student spends at most 125 hours on the project.

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