The probability that a patient recover from a rare blood disease is 0.6. It is known that 100 people have contracted this disease. It is desired to find the probability that less than one half survive. For easier computations, normal distribution is used to approximate this binomial distribution. Find the value of the standard deviation

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The probability that a patient recover from a rare blood disease is 0.6. It is known that 100 people have contracted this disease. It is desired to find the probability that less than one half survive. For easier computations, normal distribution is used to approximate this binomial distribution. Find the value of the standard deviation to be used in the computation.
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