There is a room with N bulbs turned on along the exponential distribution, which has a life independent of each other and an average of 1/μ time.   a) Find the probability distribution of the time it took for the bulb to turn off the first time.   b) Find the probability distribution of the time it took for all the bulbs to turn off.

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There is a room with N bulbs turned on along the exponential distribution, which has a life independent of each other and an average of 1/μ time.

 

a) Find the probability distribution of the time it took for the bulb to turn off the first time.

 

b) Find the probability distribution of the time it took for all the bulbs to turn off.

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