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, where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate. Here, it models the time between student arrivals.

Suppose Students Arrive at an Advising Office at a Rate