Today, the waves are crashing onto the beach every 4.8 seconds. The times from when a person arrives at the shoreline until a crashing wave is observed follows a Uniform distribution from 0 to 4.8 seconds. 61% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?

61% of the time a person will wait at least 1.872 seconds before the wave crashes in.

Step-by-step explanation:

An uniform probability is a case of probability in which each outcome is equally as likely.

For this situation, we have a lower limit of the distribution that we call a and an upper limit that we call b.

The probability that we find a value X lower than x is given by the following formula.

Uniform distribution from 0 to 4.8 seconds.

This means that

61% of the time a person will wait at least how long before the wave crashes in?

This is the 100 - 61 = 39% percentile, which is x for which . So

61% of the time a person will wait at least 1.872 seconds before the wave crashes in.

dalila is incorrect. the whisker on the left is very long, going all the way out to 5. the whisker goes from 5 to 30, so it has a spread of 25. the rest of the box plot values are closer together, so 5 is an outlier