Question 6.309

95. Uniform Distribution: Web Page Loading Time.

Suppose that the Web page loading time for a particular home network is uniform, with left endpoint 1 second and right endpoint 5 seconds.

  1. What is the probability that a randomly selected Web page will take between 3 seconds and 4 seconds to load?
  2. Find the probability that a randomly selected Web page will take between 1 second and 2 seconds to load.
  3. How often does it take less than 1 second for a Web page to load?
  4. What is the probability that it takes exactly 2 seconds for a page to load? Explain.

6.4.95

(a) 0.25 (b) 0.25 (c) 0 (d) 0. Area underneath the curve for a single value of is the area of a line that is 0.