Probability problem - Standard Deviation related

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Exercise :

A car insurance company has $10.000$ customers. The average annual compensation per customer is $240$ with Standard Deviation $800$. Calculate by approximation the probability of the total annual compensations to be bigger than $2.500.000$.

Attempt:

I think the correct approach is by the Central Limit Theorem (CLT).

$$n=10.000$$

$$μ=240$$

$$σ=800$$

$$\frac{X - μ}{σ/\sqrt{n}}=\frac{\sum x_i - nμ}{σ\sqrt{n}}$$

$$\Rightarrow$$

$$\frac{X - μ}{σ/\sqrt{n}} = \frac{2.500.000 - 10.000*240}{800*\sqrt{10.000}}$$

So :

$$P(X > 2.500.000)= P\bigg(Z > \frac{X - μ}{σ/\sqrt{n}} = \frac{2.500.000 - 10.000*240}{800*\sqrt{10.000}}\bigg)= 1- P(Z \leq 1.25)$$

Is this approach correct ? If not I would really appreciate a thorough solution and explanation.