An industrial process creates a chemical L. At time t hours after the Start of the process the amount of L produced is x kg. The rate at which L is produced is given by the differential equation. dx = k (2–x)(1+x)e" dt where k is a constant. When t = 0, x=0 and the rate of production of L is kg per hour. 3 1+x (a) Show that In |=-e" +1-In 2, provided that x>2. 2 –x, (b) Find, in hour, the time taken to produce 0.5 kg of L, giving your answer correct to 2 decimal places. (c) Show that there is a finite limit to the amount of L which this process can produce, however long it runs, and determine the value of this limit, giving your answer correct to 3 decimal places.
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!
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