Final answer:
The statement about the total 43 songs on five albums is independent of the distribution of song lengths, which is uniform between 2 and 3.5 minutes. The uniform distribution only informs about the likelihood of song lengths, not the number of songs.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that there are a total of 43 songs on the five albums chosen from the collection is independent of the distribution of the song lengths. Therefore, we cannot determine the truth of this statement based solely on the uniform distribution of song lengths between 2 and 3.5 minutes. Uniform distribution means that each song length within that range is equally likely, but it does not tell us anything about the number of songs on each album.
To assess whether the average song length or other statistics could be computed, we would need additional information such as the actual song lengths or the number of songs per album. Given that the lengths of the songs are uniformly distributed, if we wanted to determine statistics like mean song length or the probability of a certain song length, we would use the uniform distribution's properties.