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The probability density function for uniform distribution with parameters a and b is,
The age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school is uniformly distributed between 4.93 and 5.9 years. The random variable x is defined as the age of children in kindergarten on the first day of school
The probability density function is,
a.
The mean of the distribution is,
Thus, the mean of the distribution is 5.415.
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