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I’m stuck on this question and would greatly appreciate it if someone could help!

I’m stuck on this question and would greatly appreciate it if someone could help!-example-1
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Answer: B) 1/12

Reason:

The horizontal width spans from 8 to 20. This is a distance of 20-8 = 12 units.

The height is some unknown, which I'll call x. We multiply the width and height to get the area. This area must be 1 to represent 100%. You can think of it like a pie chart. This applies to any probability distribution.

area = base*height

1 = 12*x

x = 1/12

Therefore, the height of this rectangle must be 1/12 so that the area of this rectangle is 1.

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