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16 Nov 2021
Given information
The time (in years) after reaching age that it takes an individual to retire is approximately exponentially distributed with a mean of about five years. Suppose we randomly pick one retired individual. We are interested in the time after age to retirement.
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
As the information in the problem suggests the random variable will be exponentially distributed.
Therefore, the random variable is given by,
where is the decay parameter.
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