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The overall grade of a statistics class has a normal distribution with mean of 85.5 and standard deviation of 5.5. The instructor decides letter grades of students so that 5% fails the class. Find the minimum overall grade a student should get so that the student does not fail the class. (keep 1 decimal place)

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