SOLUTION: The lengths of timber produced in a timber mill process can be described using a uniform distribution over the interval 2 to 10 metres. An important trade customer only wants lengt
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Question 1121748: The lengths of timber produced in a timber mill process can be described using a uniform distribution over the interval 2 to 10 metres. An important trade customer only wants lengths between 5.2 and 8.5 metres.
What is the probability that a randomly selected piece of timber produced by the mill will be acceptable to the customer (ie is between 5.2 and 8.5 metres in length)?
Give your answer correct to 1 decimal place.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The total area of the distribution is over 8 meters
3.3 meters of that is acceptable
The probability is 3.3/8=0.4125
one decimal place is 0.4 or 41.3%
