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The travel time for a college student traveling between her home and her college is uniformly distributed between 30 and 60 minutes. The expected value for this uniform distribution is ____minutes. Please input a numerical value for your answer, e.g. 10.

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Answer:

45 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

If the travel time of the student is uniformly distributed between 30 and 60, and the expected value of this uniform distribution would be the arithmetic average of these 2 bounds, which would be

E(x) = (30 + 60)/2 = 90/2 = 45 minutes

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