A statistics professor plans classes so carefully that the lengths of her classes are uniformly distributed between 47 and 57 minutes. Find the probability that a given class period runs between 50.5 and 51 minutes?
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Mar 27, 2018
Explanation:
The easiest way to answer this question is to recognize that a uniform probability distribution is essentially a rectangle with an area equal to 1.
Now find the area of a portion of this rectangle.