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

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anonymous · Answer

almost  0  as there exists infinte numbers between 0 and 0.2

anonymous · Answer

*approximately

anonymous · Answer

@dumbcow , please I may be wrong

dumbcow · Answer

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

dumbcow · Answer

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

anonymous · Answer

Thanks @dumbcow

anonymous · Answer

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.

dumbcow · Answer

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