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Machine Learning Foundations · End Term · 21 Dec 2025 · September 2025 term

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The time (in minutes) a bank employee spends assisting a customer follows an exponential distribution with parameter . The time spent (in minutes) from a random sample of 5 customers are as follows: Find the maximum likelihood estimate of for the given sample. Enter the answer correct to two decimal places.

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Question 14 of 38 in the IIT Madras BS Machine Learning Foundations (MLF) End Term paper sat on 21 Dec 2025, in the September 2025 term (Machine Learning Foundations 18 Dec 25). It carries 3 marks.

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