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Given information

Use the following information to answer the next eleven exercises. The age of cars in the staff parking lot of a suburban
college is uniformly distributed from six months (  years) to  years.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The formula to calculate the theoretical mean is given by,

 

where, is the lowest value of and is the highest value of .

According to the given information, the distribution of is uniform with parameters and , in mathematical terms,

 

The value of and is and  respectively

Substituting for and for in the above-mentioned formula

 

Therefore, the average age of the cars in the lot is years.

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