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The time it takes me to wash the dishes is uniformly distributed between 12 minutes and 20 minutes. What is the probability that washing dishes tonight will take me between 16 and 19 minutes?

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Answer:

14.29% probability that washing dishes tonight will take between 14 and 15 minutes.

Explanation:

An uniform probability is a case of probability in which each outcome is equally as likely.

For this situation, we have a lower limit of the distribution that we call a and an upper limit that we call b.

The probability that we find a value X between c and d is given by the following formula.

The time it takes me to wash the dishes is uniformly distributed between 11 minutes and 18 minutes.

This means that

What is the probability that washing dishes tonight will take me between 14 and 15 minutes?

14.29% probability that washing dishes tonight will take between 14 and 15 minutes.

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