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  • Oct 28, 2010, 05:32 PM
    Alsouaydi
    probabilty
    The time (in hours) to repair the Slurpee Machine at 7-Eleven is an exponentially distributed random variable with expected value 2 hours. What is the conditional probability that a repair takes at least 10 hours given that the repair has already taken 8 hours?

  • Oct 29, 2010, 03:51 PM
    galactus
    The exponential is given by

    But, and

    So, we get

    Since the problem asks for

    What we then need is




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