Prior Car Accidents The probability distribution shows the probability of the number of prior car accidents for 100 individuals that have put in a claim with an insurance company following an accident. 0.50 0.45 What is the probability that an individual among these 100 0.40 represented had less than 3 prior car accidents? 0.35 0.30 Enter your answer, as a decimal, in the box. 0.25 0.20 0.15 0.10 0.05 0.00 1 2 3 4 Number of accidents Activate Windows Probability
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!
![Prior Car Accidents
The probability distribution shows the probability of the number
of prior car accidents for 100 individuals that have put in a claim
with an insurance company following an accident.
0.50
0.45
What is the probability that an individual among these 100
represented had less than 3 prior car accidents?
0.40
0.35
0.30
Enter your answer, as a decimal, in the box.
0.25
0.20
0.15
0.10
0.05
0.00
2 3 4
Number of accidents
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