You are asked two basic probability questions.
A) Catching a bus to arrive before a movie
A person is going to the cinema. The movie starts in L minutes.
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Buses depart the stop exactly every
I
minutes at times:
0,I,2I,…
.
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The bus ride time from the stop to the cinema is a constant
R
minutes.
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The person arrives at the bus stop at a random time that is uniformly distributed over one bus interval, i.e.
T∼Uniform(0,I)
, where
T
is the time since the last bus departed.
The waiting time is therefore W=I−T (with W∈(0,I]).
Task: Derive Pr[W+R≤L], i.e. the probability the person arrives at the cinema before the movie starts, as a function of I,R,L.
(Optionally: evaluate it for a concrete example such as I=10, R=25, L=40.)
B) Sum of two dice
Two fair six-sided dice are rolled.
Task: For an integer S in [2,12], compute Pr[d1+d2=S].
Clarify how the probability changes with S (e.g., give a formula or a small table).