GATE CE · 2025 · CE
Question 63: Probability and Statistics
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Question 63
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A one-way, single lane road has traffic that consists of 30% trucks and 70% cars. The speed of trucks (in km/h) is a uniform random variable on the interval (30, 60), and the speed of cars (in km/h) is a uniform random variable on the interval (40, 80). The speed limit on the road is 50 km/h. The percentage of vehicles that exceed the speed limit is __________ (rounded off to 1 decimal place).
Note: X is a uniform random variable on the interval (α, β), if its probability density function is given by
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2025CE
GATE CE 2025 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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