You have two lightbulbs for a particular lamp. Let X the lifetime of the first bulb

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You have two lightbulbs for a particular lamp. Let X  the lifetime of the first bulb and Y  the lifetime of the second bulb (both in 1000s of hours). Suppose that X and Y are independent and that each has an exponential distribution with parameter   1.

a. What is the joint pdf of X and Y?

b. What is the probability that each bulb lasts at most 1000 hours (i.e., X  1 and Y  1)?

c. What is the probability that the total lifetime of the two bulbs is at most 2? [Hint: Draw a picture of the region A  {(x, y): x  0, y  0, x y  2} before integrating.]

d. What is the probability that the total lifetime is between 1 and 2?

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