a normal distribution has mean of 500 and standard deviation of 50.  A manager wants to simulate one value from this distribution. He draws the number 1.4 randomly.  What is the simulated value?

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I'm guessing that 1.4 is the (random) number of standard deviations from the mean, so:

(X-500)/50=1.4, X-500=70 and X, the simulated value, =570.

This is based on a standard deviation of 50. The title of the question says SD=40 so:

(X-500)/40=1.4, X-500=56 and X=556.

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