Focus on Engineering
It's Time for the School of Engineering $y=e^{-x}$

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Focus on Engineering
It's time for the School of Engineering class picture and you are the photographer! You stand at the origin with your camera and your classmates are strung out along the curve $y=e^{-x}$ from (0, 1)to $\left(4, e^{-4}\right)$ . Use a calculator to find the average value of the distance from you to your classmates at a point (x, y)on the curve.Round to 3 decimal places.

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