Question

A fly has a life between 4-6 days. What is the probability that the fly will die at exactly 5 days?

Answer 1

Answer:

It should be 1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

There are three outcomes,

the fly dies in 4 days, 5 days or 6 days.

so the probability = favourable outcomes/ total number of outcomes.

therefore, 1/3.

I am not sure what level this is supposed to be for though.

Because well, the there can be lot of outcomes, like between the fourth and the fifth day, 1 hour after the fifth day begins and so on. There can be infinite possibilities.

The answer could be zero too since 1/infinite is considered 0.

However, zero isn't possible since there has to be some chance that the bee dies in exactly five days.

But 1/3 is the simplest answer possible.