Python for Introductory StatisticsXYZ Homework Edition

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9. Continuous Probability Distributions

Let f(x)f(x) be the probability distribution of a continuous random variable xx. Then the probability that a<x<ba < x < b corresponds to the area under the curve y=f(x)y = f(x) between aa and bb.

Adapted from Python for Introductory Statistics, by Simon Aman (Truman College, City Colleges of Chicago), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with live in-browser code cells. License: CC-BY-4.0.

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