Question

what is the probability of generating a number between 0 and 0.2?

Answer 1

almost 0 as there exists infinte numbers between 0 and 0.2

Answer 2

*approximately

Answer 3

@dumbcow , please I may be wrong

Answer 4

thats a very generic statement...how are you generating these numbers?
what is the sample space of possible numbers?

Answer 5

no you are correct...probability of picking a random number between 0 and 0.2 in space of all reals is essentially 0

Answer 6

Thanks @dumbcow

Answer 7

The back of the book says the asnwer is P(0< with line under that X < line under it 0.2) = 0.2 but I didn't understand how the got that.

Answer 8

oh ok ...its a uniform distribution from 0 to 1
so no number in [0,1] is any more likely to occur than any other

--> P(a<X<b) = b-a