Delivery times for shipments from a central warehouse are exponentially distributed with a mean of 1.72 days. A random sample of 58 shipments are selected and their shipping times are observed. Find the probability that the average shipping time is less

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Section12.4: Discrete Random Variables; Applications To Decision Making
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Delivery times for shipments from a central warehouse are
exponentially distributed with a mean of 1.72 days. A
random sample of 58 shipments are selected and their
shipping times are observed.
Find the probability that the average shipping time is less
than 1.3 days.
Transcribed Image Text:Delivery times for shipments from a central warehouse are exponentially distributed with a mean of 1.72 days. A random sample of 58 shipments are selected and their shipping times are observed. Find the probability that the average shipping time is less than 1.3 days.
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