SOLUTION: The duration of a professor's class has a continuous uniform distribution between 50.0 minutes and 52.0 minutes. If one class is randomly selected, find the probability that the pr

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Question 1203035: The duration of a professor's class has a continuous uniform distribution between 50.0 minutes and 52.0 minutes. If one class is randomly selected, find the probability that the professor's class duration is between 50.6 and 51.9 minutes.
Answer by ikleyn(52775) About Me  (Show Source):
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It is  P = %2851.9-50.6%29%2F%2852.0-50.0%29 = 0.65.    ANSWER


To calculate it, you should take a working interval time duration (which is in the numerator) 
and relate it to the full base time interval (which is in the denominator).


It is how the uniform distribution works.

Solved.