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Listed below are the recent salaries (in millions of dollars) of players on the San Antonio Spurs professional basketball team.

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Listed below are the recent salaries (in millions of dollars) of players on the San Antonio Spurs professional basketball team.
a. Do these salaries appear to come from a population that has a normal distribution? Why or why not?
b. Can the mean of this sample be treated as a value from a population having a normal distribution? Why or why not?
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