Exponential: Equipment Reliability

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EXAMPLE Exponential: Equipment Reliability Using the exponential distribution to model equipment lifetime and calculate survival probabilities Excellent work! You've completed this exponential distribution example. Here's what we learned: Exponential Distribution: Models the time until an event occurs with constant failure rate λ = 0.01 per hour. Survival Probability: P(T > t) = e -λt gives the probability the equipment survives past time t. For 100 hours, this is approximately 36.8%. Expected Lifetime: E[T] = 1/λ provides the mean time until failure. With λ = 0.01, we expect equipment to last 100 hours on average. Memoryless Property: The exponential distribution has no memory - the probability of surviving another t hours is the same regardless of how long it's already survived. The exponential distribution is widely used in reliability engineering, queuing theory, and survival analysis!

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