Question 33
A cafe records the time (in minutes) a customer waits for a freshly made sandwich. The waiting time follows an exponential distribution with mean 5 minutes. Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
MLF End Term 21 Dec 2025 — Question 33
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Question 33 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 1 mark.
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