Suppose the Probability of a Car Accident Taking Place Anywhere

question 88

Multiple Choice

Suppose the probability of a car accident taking place anywhere on a stretch of a 20 miles highway is the same.Which of the following distributions would you use to determine the probability that a car accident will occur somewhere between the 5-mile and 15-mile posts of the highway?

• A)Normal distribution.
• B)Poisson distribution.
• C)Uniform distribution.
• D)Exponential distribution.

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