Today, the waves are crashing onto the beach every 5.9 seconds. The times from when a person arrives at the shoreline until a crashing wave is observed follows a Uniform distribution from 0 to 5.9 seconds. Round to 4 decimal places where possible. The probability that it will take longer than 4.28 seconds for the wave to crash onto the beach after the person arrives is P(x > 4.28) =

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Today, the waves are crashing onto the beach every 5.9 seconds. The times from when a person arrives at the shoreline until a crashing wave is observed follows a Uniform distribution from 0 to 5.9 seconds. Round to 4 decimal places where possible.

  1. The probability that it will take longer than 4.28 seconds for the wave to crash onto the beach after the person arrives is P(x > 4.28) = 
  2. Suppose that the person has already been standing at the shoreline for 0.2 seconds without a wave crashing in. Find the probability that it will take between 0.9 and 1.6 seconds for the wave to crash onto the shoreline. 
  3. 28% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?  seconds.
  4. Find the minimum for the upper quartile.  seconds.
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