Let X Represent the Amount of Time It Takes a Student

question 61

Multiple Choice

Let X represent the amount of time it takes a student to park in the library parking lot at the university. If we know that the distribution of parking times can be modeled using an exponential distribution with a mean of 4 minutes, find the probability that it will take a randomly selected student more than 10 minutes to park in the library lot.

• A) 0.670320
• B) 0.082085
• C) 0.329680
• D) 0.917915

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