An Electronics Repair Shop Has Determined That the Time Between

question 24

True/False

An electronics repair shop has determined that the time between failures for a particular electronic component part is exponentially distributed with a mean time between failures of 200 hours. Based on this information, the probability that a part will fail between 20 and 100 hours is approximately 0.30.

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