Introductory Statistics
1st Edition
ISBN: 9781938168208
Author: Barbara Illowsky, Susan Dean
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Chapter 7, Problem 49P
Use the following information to answer the next five exercises: The length of time a particular smartphone’s battery lasts follows an exponential disuibution with a
49. What is the distribution for the mean length of time 64 batteries last?
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