5.5. A filling station is supplied with gasoline once a week. If its weekly volume of sales in thousands of gallons is a random variable with probability density function f(x) = 4 (5(1-x)* 0

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5.5. A filling station is supplied with gasoline once a week. If its weekly volume
of sales in thousands of gallons is a random variable with probability density
function
(5(1-x)² 0<x< 1
otherwise
-{50
f(x) =
what must the capacity of the tank be so that the probability of the supply
being exhausted in a given week is .01?
Transcribed Image Text:5.5. A filling station is supplied with gasoline once a week. If its weekly volume of sales in thousands of gallons is a random variable with probability density function (5(1-x)² 0<x< 1 otherwise -{50 f(x) = what must the capacity of the tank be so that the probability of the supply being exhausted in a given week is .01?
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