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7.3 Exercise 41

Avg difficulty 2.5


Use the following information to answer the next three exercises:
Richard’s Furniture Company delivers furniture from 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. continuously and uniformly. We are interested in how long (in hours) past the 10 A.M. start time that individuals wait for their delivery.

The average wait time is:

  1. one hour.
  2. two hours.
  3. two and a half hours.
  4. four hours.

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