The graph to the right is the uniform probability density function for a friend who is x minutes late. (a) Find the probability that the friend is between 20 and 30 minutes late. (b) It is 10 A.M. There is a 10% probability the friend will arrive within how many minutes?
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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The graph to the right is the uniform
(a) Find the probability that the friend is between
20
and
30
minutes late.(b) It is 10 A.M. There is a
10%
probability the friend will arrive within how many minutes? |
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