While Juanita waits for her Mac and Cheese to boil, she works on her homework for 1/2

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While Juanita waits for her Mac and Cheese to boil, she works on her homework for 1/2 of the time. She has been waiting for 3 minutes already (so she has already done 1.5 minutes of homework). She doesn't know how much more time is needed. She estimates that the remaining time (in minutes) until the water boils is an Exponential random variable Y with density fY(y) = 1/4e-y/4 for y > 0, and fY(y) = 0 otherwise. Find the total length of time that she expects to work on her homework while waiting for the water to boil.
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Introduction to Probability

ISBN: 978-0716771098

1st edition

Authors: Mark Daniel Ward, Ellen Gundlach

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