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Two people agree to meet for a drink after work but they are impatient and each will wait only 15 minutes for the other person to show up. Suppose that they each arrive at independent random times uniformly distributed between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. What is the probability they will meet?

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Answer: 50% is the probability

Explanation:

There are to people showing up at to different times now the probability is out of a 100%.

So 100 divided by 2 will equal to a 50

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