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In Problems 53 and 58, find the associated cumulative distribution function.
55. Electricity consumption. The daily demand for electricity (in millions of kilowatt-hours) in a large city is a continuous random variable with probability density function
(A) Evaluate
(B) What is the probability that the daily demand for electricity is less than 8 million kilowatt-hours?
(C) What is the probability that 5 million kilowatt-hours will not be sufficient to meet the daily demand?
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