The length of time that it takes the tollbooth attendant to service each driver can typically be described by the
A)normal distribution.
B)uniform distribution.
C)exponential distribution.
D)Poisson distribution.
E)None of the above

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The exponential distribution is typically used to model the length of time between arrivals of a Poisson process. In this case, the tollbooth attendant is serving drivers in a Poisson process, so the length of time between each driver can be modeled using the exponential distribution.

The Length of Time That It Takes the Tollbooth Attendant