Question

The time required to play a game of Battleship™ is uniformly distributed between 20 and 60 minutes. Answer the following two questions:

What is the expected value of the time to complete the game?
a. 20 minutes
b. 30 minutes
c. 40 minutes
d. 60 minutes

Answer 1

The expected value of the time to complete the game of Battleship™ is 40 minutes.

Step-by-step explanation:

The expected value of the time to complete the game of Battleship™ can be found by taking the average of the minimum and maximum times. In this case, the minimum time is 20 minutes and the maximum time is 60 minutes. Adding these two values and dividing by 2 gives us an expected value of 40 minutes. Therefore, option c, 40 minutes, is the correct answer.