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The L.L.Bean catalog department that receives the majority of its orders by telephone conducted a study to determine how long customers were willing to wait on hold before ordering a product.The length of time was found to be a random variable best approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean equal to 3 minutes.
-{Phone Orders Narrative} What is the probability that a randomly selected caller is placed on hold for fewer than 6 minutes?


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