The time between successive calls to a corporate office is exponentially distributed with a mean of 10 minutes. Assume that the times between

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The time between successive calls to a corporate office is exponentially distributed with a mean of 10 minutes. Assume that the times between successive calls are independent of each other. Thus, the calls arrive according to a Poisson process.

 Determine x such that the probability that there are no calls within x minutes is 0.005.

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