It is shown that under fairly mild conditions linear combinations of independent normally distributed random variables with random coefficients tend to zero almost everywhere. The result is applied to ...

On a certain track team, the runners all take between 4 and 7 minutes to finish a mile. The probability density function for the length of time it takes a runner to ...

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