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Researchers have shown that the num-
ber of successive dry days that occur after a rainstorm for
particular regions of Catalonia, Spain, is a random variable that
is distributed exponentially with a mean of 8 days. Source:
International Journal of Climatology.
a. Find the
occur after a rainstorm.
b. Find the probability that fewer than 2 dry days occur after
a rainstorm.
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