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ISBN: 9781111792374

Author: WEIERS

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 7.5, Problem 7.55E

The owner of a self-service carwash has found that customers take an average of 8 minutes to wash and dry their cars. Assuming that the self-service times tend to be exponentially distributed, what is the probability that a customer will require more than 10 minutes to complete the job?

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