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A motorist goes for a drive, keeping the reading on thespeedometer at a constant value of 40 km/h. The speedometer isassumed to be accurate to +- 2 km/h. At the end of the day he wantsto know how far he has travelled, but unfortunately he forgot tolook at the distance indicator when he set out. He thinks that hedrove for four hours, give or take a quarter of an hour. Estimatehow far he travelled and assign an error to your result.

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Suppose random variable T denotes time of driving in hoursand S denotes speed in kmhourSo random variable X denoting travel    See Answer
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