You Have Determined That Waiting Times at a Toll Booth

question 10

Multiple Choice

You have determined that waiting times at a toll booth are uniformly distributed over the interval 20 to 60 seconds. What formula would you use in Excel to generate random values in this range that follow the uniform distribution?

• A) = (60 − 20) × RAND()
• B) = (60 + 20) × RAND()
• C) = 20 + (60 − 20) × RAND()
• D) = 60 + (60 − 20) × RAND()
• E) = 20 + (60 + 20) × RAND()

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