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Given information

The percent of persons (ages five and older) in each state who speak a language at home other than English is approximately exponentially distributed with a mean of . Suppose we randomly pick a state.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

As stated in the given problem, the random variable is exponentially distributed and is given by,

  

The probability density function of exponential distribution is given by,

 

The maximum value of  will lie on axis, where , therefore

 

The graph is as follows:

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