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5.2 Exercise 50

Avg difficulty 2.5

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.

What is the average waiting time (in minutes)?

  1. zero
  2. two
  3. three
  4. four

OpenStax Statistics, 5.2 The Uniform Distribution, exercise 50

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