Mathematical Statistics with Applications

7th Edition

ISBN: 9780495110811

Author: Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 5.4, Problem 70E

A bus arrives at a bus stop at a uniformly distributed time over the interval 0 to 1 hour. A passenger also arrives at the bus stop at a uniformly distributed time over the interval 0 to 1 hour. Assume that the arrival times of the bus and passenger are independent of one another and that the passenger will wait for up to 1/4 hour for the bus to arrive. What is the probability that the passenger will catch the bus? [Hint: Let Y₁ denote the bus arrival time and Y₂ the passenger arrival time; determine the joint density of Y₁ and Y₂ and find P(Y₂ ≤ Y₁ ≤ Y₂ + 1/4).]

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Mathematical Statistics with Applications

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