It Is Appropriate to Use the Uniform Distribution to Describe

question 149

Multiple Choice

It is appropriate to use the uniform distribution to describe a continuous random variable x when

• A) the area under the probability curve = 1.
• B) the probability curve f(x) > 0.
• C) the shape of the histogram of all possible values of x is nonsymmetrical.
• D) relative frequencies of all possible values of x are about the same.

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