SOLUTION: Suppose that the time, X, that a tourist must wait to board a trolley car in San Francisco is a uniformly distributed random variable over the interval from 0 minutes to 10 minutes

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Question 132476: Suppose that the time, X, that a tourist must wait to board a trolley car in San Francisco is a uniformly distributed random variable over the interval from 0 minutes to 10 minutes.

a.What is the probability that the tourist’s wait-time is exactly 0 minutes?
b.What is the probability that a tourist must wait longer than 8 minutes to board the trolley car?
c.What is the expected wait-time for a tourist?
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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Answer has been posted this evening.
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Stan H.