The wait time at a popular fast food restaurant is uniformly distributed between 2 and 10 minutes on average (a) Find the probability that you wait less than 4 minutes.  (b) Find the probability that you wait between 8 and 10 minutes. (c) Explain why the answers to (a) and (b) are the same. Hint: draw the probability density function for a Uniform random variable. Explain with a graph and also without a graph

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The wait time at a popular fast food restaurant is uniformly distributed between 2 and 10 minutes on average

(a) Find the probability that you wait less than 4 minutes. 

(b) Find the probability that you wait between 8 and 10 minutes.

(c) Explain why the answers to (a) and (b) are the same. Hint: draw the probability density function for a Uniform random variable. Explain with a graph and also without a graph.

 

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