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If you turn on the radio at 50 random times, predict about how many times you will have to wait less than 1 minute before the start of the next weather report.Im completely lost. Can you answer this, and also explain how you got there. Thanks.......
A radio station gives a weather report every 15 minutes. Each report last 45 seconds. Suppose you turn on the radio at a random time. If you turn on the radio at 50 random times, predict about how many times you will have to wait less than 1 minute before the start of the next weather report.

I'm completely lost. Can you answer this, and also explain how you got there. Thanks.

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let's calculate the time every hour that we hearing or are within a minute of hearing a report.

Actual message = 4 * 45 secs = 180 secs = 3 minutes

Tine before message or within 1 minute of message within an hour = 3 minutes

Total time = 3 + 3 = 6 minutes/hour that we are hearing or within 1 minute of hearing a message

At a given moment when turning on the radio within an hour we would have 6/10 = 1/10 or 10% chance of a hearing a message or within a minutes of hearing a message. So if we attempt 50 times at random we would expect .10 * 50 = 5 times.

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Im,not confident but perhaps 3.55or about 4 times since out of 845 seconds you can turn on the radio at any second so the probability you do it before 1 minute the start of next report is 60/845
And the no. of times you get it right in 50 times o
Is 60*50/845 =3.55 times

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is this a math question??? It is totally beyond me~~sorry.
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