The Time Between Customer Arrivals at a Furniture Store Has $\theta = 8.5$

question 251

Multiple Choice

The time between customer arrivals at a furniture store has an approximate exponential distribution with mean $\theta = 8.5$ 8.5 minutes. If a customer just arrived, find the probability that the nex customer will arrive in the next 5 minutes.

• A) 0.555306
• B) 0.182684
• C) 0.444694
• D) 0.817316

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