Answer :
The situation that is best represented by an exponential distribution is given by the following option:
Tafadzwa runs between 10 and 16 laps every day. his times get slower as he gets tired, but his daily average is 48.2 s per lap. what is the probability that his mean lap time tomorrow will be less than 45 s?.
Exponential distribution
The exponential probability distribution, with mean m, is described by the following mass function:
[tex]f(x) = \mu e^{-\mu x}[/tex]
In which [tex]\mu = \frac{1}{m}[/tex] is the decay parameter.
From this, we get that the exponential distribution is used when we want to study the time between events in a distribution, and only the first option in this problem gives it.
As for the other options, the distributions are as follows:
- Meteor: Poisson distribution or binomial distribution, mean in a given time, we want to find the probability of a number.
- Drivers asleep in the highway: Poisson or binomial, also number of events in an interval.
- People calling in sick: Binomial distribution.
- Defective tires: Binomial distribution.
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