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Given information

Suppose that the length of long-distance phone calls, measured in minutes, is known to have an exponential distribution with the average length of a call equal to eight minutes.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

The required probability can be calculated as follows:

 

Therefore, the probability that a phone call lasts between seven and nine minutes is

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