Suppose students arrive at an advising office at a rate of 30 per hour. Which of the following distributions would you use to determine the probability that the next two students will arrive 30
Minutes apart?
A) Normal distribution.
B) Poisson distribution.
C) Uniform distribution.
D) Exponential distribution.

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The exponential distribution is used to model the time between events in a Poisson process, such as the time between arrivals of students at a constant average rate.

Suppose Students Arrive at an Advising Office at a Rate