The life expectancy of a particular brand of tire is normally distributed with a mean of 40,000 and a standard deviation of 5,000 miles. What is the probability that a randomly selected tire will have a life of exactly 42,500 miles?
A) 0.0000
B) 1.0000
C) 0.5000
D) 0.9500

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In a continuous probability distribution like the normal distribution, the probability of observing any single, exact value is essentially 0 because there are infinitely many possible values.

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