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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.

It is known from the problem that,

, .    

The Probability density function of the exponential distribution is given by,

The maximum value of will lie on axis, where  

 

The graph is as follows:

 

 

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