Conditioning a uniform wait
A wait time is uniform on minutes. Given that the wait turned out to be under minutes, what is the probability it was under minutes? (to 4 decimals)
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- P(X<3 | X<8) = P(X<3)/P(X<8) since {X<3} ⊂ {X<8}.
- For U[0,10] each probability is length/10: (3/10)/(8/10) = 3/8.
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0.375
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