Today, the waves are crashing onto the beach every 5.7 seconds. The times from when a person arrives at the shoreline until a crashing wave is observed follows a Uniform distribution from 0 to 5.7 seconds. Round to 4 decimal places where possible.   1. Suppose that the person has already been standing at the shoreline for 1.1 seconds without a wave crashing in. Find the probability that it will take between 2.9 and 4.2 seconds for the wave to crash onto the shoreline.  22% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?  seconds. Find the maximum for the lower quartile.  seconds.

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Today, the waves are crashing onto the beach every 5.7 seconds. The times from when a person arrives at the shoreline until a crashing wave is observed follows a Uniform distribution from 0 to 5.7 seconds. Round to 4 decimal places where possible.

 

1. Suppose that the person has already been standing at the shoreline for 1.1 seconds without a wave crashing in. Find the probability that it will take between 2.9 and 4.2 seconds for the wave to crash onto the shoreline. 

  1. 22% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?  seconds.
  2. Find the maximum for the lower quartile.  seconds.
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