Alex is in a hurry to get to work and is rushing to catch the bus. She knows that the bus arrives every six minutes during rush hour, but does not know the exact times the bus is due. She realizes that from the time she arrives at the stop, the amount of time that she will have to wait follows a uniform distribution with a lower bound of 0 minutes and an upper bound of six minutes. What is the probability that she will have to wait more than two minutes?
A) 0.1667
B) 0.3333
C) 0.6667
D) 1.0000

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The probability that Alex will have to wait more than two minutes is calculated by finding the proportion of the interval from 2 to 6 minutes out of the total interval from 0 to 6 minutes. This is (6 - 2) / (6 - 0) = 4 / 6 = 2 / 3, which is 0.6667 or 66.67%.

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