The Time You Must Wait for an Orange Line Train

question 17

Essay

The time you must wait for an Orange Line train of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority follows a uniform distribution with a lower bound of 0 minutes and an upper bound of 8 minutes.Jonathan is running to catch the train in order to get to a meeting.He knows that the train needs to arrive within five minutes or else he will be late.What is the probability that he will be late to his meeting?

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Definitions:

Memory Construction

The process through which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information, influenced by perception, imagination, and other cognitive processes.

Sensory Memory

The briefest span of memory, capable of holding sensations of sensory data after the initial stimuli are no longer present.

Repression

A defense mechanism where unpleasant thoughts, memories, or desires are pushed out of the conscious mind into the unconscious.

Retrieval Cues

Triggers or stimuli that help in the recall of memories stored in the brain.