A cellular call is made to your cell phone at random within a ten-minute interval. You were busy on a call for 2 minutes into this ten-minute period. There is a probability that the call arrived when you were not busy on your cell. Identify the random variable and define the distribution of the random variable?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
A cellular call is made to your cell phone at random within a ten-minute interval. You were
busy on a call for 2 minutes into this ten-minute period. There is a
arrived when you were not busy on your cell. Identify the random variable and define the
distribution of the random variable?
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