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In Problems 53 and 58, find the associated cumulative distribution function.
56. Gasoline consumption. The daily demand for gasoline (in millions of gallons) in a large city is a continuous random variable with probability density function
(A) Evaluate
(B) What is the probability that the daily demand is less than 2 million gallons?
(C) What is the probability that 3 million gallons will not be sufficient to meet the daily demand?
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