Probability, expectation and variance of uniform distribution

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A new supermarket plans to open somewhere on the outskirts of a town. In fact, $X$ , the distance of a new supermarket from the town centre is Uniformly distributed between $\var{lower}$ metres and $\var{upper}$ metres i.e.

$X \sim \operatorname{U}(\var{lower},\var{upper})$

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

upper	integer	1100
lower	integer	650
ans1	rational	875
ans2	number	16875.000
ans3	decimal	dec("0.667")
thisdis	decimal	dec("0.95")
t	integer	34
tol	number	0.001

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Find $\operatorname{E}[X]$ , the expected distance in metres of the new supermarket from the town centre:

$\operatorname{E}[X]=\;?$ Gap 0.m (to 3 decimal places).

Also find the variance $\operatorname{Var}(X)$ :

$\operatorname{Var}(X)=\;$ ?Gap 1. (to 3 decimal places).

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a) For a Uniform distribution

$X \sim \operatorname{U}(\var{lower},\var{upper})$ we have:

$\displaystyle \operatorname{E}[X] = \frac{\var{lower}+\var{upper}}{2}=\var{ans1}$ m

$\displaystyle \operatorname{Var}(X) = \frac{(\var{upper}-\var{lower})^2}{12}=\frac{(\var{upper-lower})^2}{12}=\var{ans2}$ to 3 decimal places.

$\displaystyle P(X \le \var{thisdis}\textrm{km})=\frac{\var{thisdis}\times 1000 -\var{lower}}{\var{upper}-\var{lower}}=\var{ans3}$ to 3 decimal places.

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Generated value: integer

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Generated value: `integer`