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Product Reliability The tread life (in thousands of miles) of a certain make of tire is a continuous random variable with a probability density function
a. Find the probability that a randomly selected tire of this make will have a tread life of at most 30,000 mi
b. Find the probability that a randomly selected tire of this make will have a tread life between 40.000 and 60,000 mi.
c. Find the probability that a randomly selected tire of this make will have a tread life of at least 70,000 mi.
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