OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §5.3 The Exponential Distribution · Exercise 23 · Probability · Continuous distributions
The Exponential Distribution · Exercise 23
Carbon-14 is a radioactive element with a half-life of about 5,730 years. Carbon-14 is said to decay exponentially. The decay rate is 0.000121. We start with one gram of carbon-14. We are interested in the time (years) it takes to decay carbon-14.
The distribution for X is ______.
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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §5.3 The Exponential Distribution · Exercise 23
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