Suppose that during rainy season on a tropical island the length of the shower has an exponential distribution, with parameter λ = 2, time being measured in minutes. What is the probability that a shower will last more than three minutes? If a shower has already lasted for 2 minutes, what is the probability that it will last for at least one more minute?
Continuous Probability Distributions
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Normal Distribution
Suppose we had to design a bathroom weighing scale, how would we decide what should be the range of the weighing machine? Would we take the highest recorded human weight in history and use that as the upper limit for our weighing scale? This may not be a great idea as the sensitivity of the scale would get reduced if the range is too large. At the same time, if we keep the upper limit too low, it may not be usable for a large percentage of the population!
Suppose that during rainy season on a tropical island the length of the
shower has an exponential distribution, with parameter λ = 2, time being
measured in minutes. What is the
than three minutes? If a shower has already lasted for 2 minutes, what is the
probability that it will last for at least one more minute?
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