Reaction time is the time you take from sensing a situation until you apply the brakes Reaction distance is the distance travelled during your reaction time Braking distance is the distance travelled from when you apply the brakes until you stop Stopping distance = Reaction distance + Braking distance Troy was travelling at 75 km/h when he saw an obstacle over the road. His reaction time was 1.6 seconds. a) (i) What was his reaction distance in metres (correct to one decimal place)? (ii) Troy put on his brakes and stopped 23 m later. What was his stopping distance in metres (correct to one decimal place)?
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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