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Chapter 7: Q. 78 (page 433)

X~

a.U(0,4)

b.U(10,2)

c.Exp⁡(2)

d.N(2,1)

Short Answer

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X~U(0,4). Therefore, option "a" is the correct answer.

Step by step solution

01

Given information

From the information given in the question, we observed that the furniture company delivers furniture from 10. A. M to 2. PM continuously and uniformly. The company delivers furniture in 4 hours.

02

Explanation 

In statistics, a uniform distribution is a distribution function in which every potential outcome is equally likely to occur; that is, the probability of each occurrence is the same.

The distribution will follow the uniform distribution as below:

X~U(0,4)

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