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5.2 Exercise 43

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Use the following information to answer the next three exercises. The Sky Train from the terminal to the rental–car and long–term parking center is supposed to arrive every eight minutes. The waiting times for the train are known to follow a uniform distribution.

The number of miles driven by a truck driver falls between 300 and 700, and follows a uniform distribution.

  1. Find the probability that the truck driver goes more than 650 miles in a day.
  2. Find the probability that the truck drivers goes between 400 and 650 miles in a day.

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics 2e, 5.2 The Uniform Distribution, exercise 43

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