A local military base maintains a variety of different equipment. One of these is a sensitive radardevice that signals incursion of enemy planes into American airspace. Breakdowns of the device occur completely at random at an average rate of three per year. The equipment is generally repaired the same day that it fails. Determine the following:a. The probability that the time between two successive failures is less than one month.

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A local military base maintains a variety of different equipment. One of these is a sensitive radar
device that signals incursion of enemy planes into American airspace. Breakdowns of the device occur completely at random at an average rate of three per year. The equipment is generally repaired the same day that it fails. Determine the following:
a. The probability that the time between two successive failures is less than one month.

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