Use technology to solve the following problem: A bottler of drinking water fills plastic bottles with a mean volume of 1,002 milliliters (mL) and standard deviation 4 mL. The fill volumes are normally Distributed. What proportion of bottles have volumes less than 1,002 mL?
A) 0.5517
B) 1.0000
C) 0.5000
D) 0.9987

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Given that the fill volumes are normally distributed with a mean of 1,002 mL, the proportion of bottles with volumes less than the mean (1,002 mL) is 0.5 or 50%. This is a property of the normal distribution, where the data is symmetrically distributed around the mean.

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