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15. The proportion of people who respond to a certain mail-order solicitation is a continuous random
variable X that has the density function:
(k(x+1) if 0<x<1
f (x) = <
elsewhere
By finding the cumulative distribution function F (x), the value of P(0.5<X< 0.75) is:

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