Tesla Battery Recharge Time. The electric-vehicle manufacturing company Tesla estimates that a driver who commutes 50 miles per day in a Model Swill require a nightly charge time of around 1hour and 45 minutes (105 minutes) to recharge the vehicle's battery (Tesla company website). Assume that the actual recharging time required is uniformly distributed between 90 and 120 minutes. a. Give a mathematical expression for the probability density function of battery recharging time for this b. What is the probability that the recharge time will be less than 110 minutes? c. What is the probability that the recharge time required is at least 100 minutes? d. What is the probability that the recharge time required is between 95 and 110 minutes?
Continuous Probability Distributions
Probability distributions are of two types, which are continuous probability distributions and discrete probability distributions. A continuous probability distribution contains an infinite number of values. For example, if time is infinite: you could count from 0 to a trillion seconds, billion seconds, so on indefinitely. A discrete probability distribution consists of only a countable set of possible values.
Normal Distribution
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Tesla Battery Recharge Time. The electric-vehicle manufacturing company Tesla estimates that a driver who commutes 50 miles per day in a Model Swill require a nightly charge time of around 1hour and 45 minutes (105 minutes) to recharge the vehicle's battery (Tesla company website). Assume that the actual recharging time required is uniformly distributed between 90 and 120 minutes.
a. Give a mathematical expression for the
b. What is the probability that the recharge time will be less than 110 minutes?
c. What is the probability that the recharge time required is at least 100 minutes?
d. What is the probability that the recharge time required is between 95 and 110 minutes?
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