The length of the time spent waiting in line at a certain bank is modeled by an exponential density function with mean 8 minutes. (a) What is the probability that a customer is served in the first 3 minutes? (b) What is the probability that a customer has to wait more than 10 minutes? (c) What if the median waiting time?
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