Thursday, March 18, 2010

Traffic lights and probabilities

A classical probability problem. A traffic light has a mean waiting time of 14 seconds and a variance of 4 second. What is the probability of waiting more than 21 seconds?

P(X>21) = 1-P(X<=21) ; 14 / 4 = 1.5 this is the standardization of the distribution , then..

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