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The time (in minutes) between arrivals of customers to a post office is to be modelled by the Exponential distribution with mean 0.43. Please give your answers to two decimal places. Part a) What is the probability that the time between consecutive customers is less than 15 seconds? Part b) Find the probability that the time between consecutive customers is between ten and fifteen seconds. Part c) Given that the time between consecutive customers arriving is greater than ten seconds, what is the chance that it is greater than fifteen seconds?

          The time (in minutes) between arrivals of customers to a post office is to be modelled by the Exponential distribution with mean 0.43. Please give your answers to two decimal places.
Part a)
What is the probability that the time between consecutive customers is less than 15 seconds?
Part b)
Find the probability that the time between consecutive customers is between ten and fifteen seconds.
Part c)
Given that the time between consecutive customers arriving is greater than ten seconds, what is the chance that it is greater than fifteen seconds?
        
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The time (in minutes) between arrivals of customers to a post office is to be modelled by the Exponential distribution with mean 0.43. Please give your answers to two decimal places.
Part a)
What is the probability that the time between consecutive customers is less than 15 seconds?
Part b)
Find the probability that the time between consecutive customers is between ten and fifteen seconds.
Part c)
Given that the time between consecutive customers arriving is greater than ten seconds, what is the chance that it is greater than fifteen seconds?

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00:01 Hi, i'm david and i'm here to help you answer your question.
00:03 Now let me bring up your question here.
00:06 In the question here we are going to discuss about the exponential distribution.
00:11 Let me remind you that if the x that followed by exponential, when the mean equal to the petal, and then the density of the x equals to 1 over petal e to the power minus x over the petal for the x -queter equal to the 0.
00:28 In the question here we have the time between the 1st, arrivals of the customers x will follow by exponential when the beta equal to the 0 .43.
00:40 And therefore we can find the density of the x equal to 1 over 0 .43, e to the power minus x over the 0 .43.
00:52 And x squared equal to the 0.
00:54 So notice that the time here will be in the minute.
00:59 And in the question, i want to find the probability that the time here will be less than the 15 seconds.
01:08 We know 15 seconds will be the 15 divided by 60.
01:11 It will equal to the 0 .25 minute.
01:18 So therefore x will be smaller than the 0 .25.
01:21 This one just equal to integral, starting from 0 to the 0 to the 0.
01:25 The density will be 1 over 0 .0 .043, e to the power minus x over the 0 .43, the x.
01:35 Anti -derivative will be the minus e to the power minus x over the 0 .43, evaluating from the 0 -1 to the 0 .25.
01:45 If we plug, we get equal to 1 minus 0 .0, e to the power of the minus 0 .25 over the 0 .40.
01:55 So if we compute it, we have the minus 0 .25, the vanymed 0 .43, e to the power of the answer, 1 minus the answer.
02:05 It will equal to the 0 .44.
02:10 I need to round the answer to 2 decimal places.
02:15 And that will be the answer for the first question a...
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