Finding narrow sense heritability

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Question: A herd of beef cattle has a mean production of 400 units. Individuals with mean production of 500 units are allowed to interbreed, and the mean of their offspring is 425 units. What is narrow-sense heritability?
a. 0
b. 0.25
c. 0.5
d. 0.8
e. 0.9

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