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An infrastructure project calls for investment in 2021. A team of experts has reached a conclusion that the probability that the project is going to fail follows a continuous uniform distribution between 0.3 and 0.7. What is the probability that the probability of project failure is between 0.2 and 0.5?  Group of answer choices0.250.20.50.75

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An infrastructure project calls for investment in 2021. A team of experts has reached a conclusion that the probability that the project is going to fail follows a continuous uniform distribution between 0.3 and 0.7. What is the probability that the probability of project failure is between 0.2 and 0.5?  Group of answer choices0.250.20.50.75

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The probability for a continuous uniform distribution can be calculated using the formula:

P(a ≤ X ≤ b) = (b - a) / (B - A)

where:

  • A and B are the minimum and maximum values of the distribution (in this case, 0.3 and 0.7)
  • a and b are the values for which we want to find the probability (in this case, 0.2 and 0.5)

However, since 0.2 is less than the minimum value of the distribution (0.3), we need to adjust the values of a and b. The probability of the project failure being less than 0.3 is 0, so we can use 0.3 as the lower limit instead of 0.2. Therefore, a = 0.3 and b = 0.5.

Substituting these values into the formula, we get:

P(0.3 ≤ X ≤ 0.5) = (0.5 - 0.3) / (0.7 - 0.3) = 0.5

So, the probability that the probability of project failure is between 0.2 and 0.5 is 0.5.

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