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Use the following information to answer the next eleven exercises. The age of cars in the staff parking lot of a suburban college is uniformly distributed from six months ( years) to years.
Considering only the cars less than years old, find the probability that a randomly chosen car in the lot was less than four years old.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
The notation of the uniform distribution is,
.
The lowest value of is and the highest value of is
On substitute for and for in the probability density function.
where .
Therefore, .
The graph of the probability that a randomly chosen car in the lot is less than four years old given that the car is less than years old is given below.
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