Question

It is assumed that the time customers spend in a record store is uniformly distributed between 3 and 12 minutes. Based on this information, what is the probability that a customer will be exactly 7.50 minutes in the record store

Answer 1

Answer:

0% probability that a customer will be exactly 7.50 minutes in the record store.

Step-by-step explanation:

Uniform probability distribution:

An uniform distribution has two bounds, a and b.  

The probability of finding a value of at lower than x is:

$P(X < x) = \frac{x - a}{b - a}$

The probability of finding a value between c and d is:

$P(c \leq X \leq d) = \frac{d - c}{b - a}$

The probability of finding a value above x is:

$P(X > x) = \frac{b - x}{b - a}$

The uniform distribution is a continuous distribution, which means that the probability of an exact outcome is zero.

Uniformly distributed between 3 and 12 minutes.

This means that $a = 3, b = 12$

What is the probability that a customer will be exactly 7.50 minutes in the record store?

Continuous distribution, so:

0% probability that a customer will be exactly 7.50 minutes in the record store.