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1.Which of the following distributions is widely used to describe the time between random events? Uniform...

1.Which of the following distributions is widely used to describe the time between random events?

Uniform distribution

Exponential distribution

Poisson distribution

Normal distribution

None of the answer choices is correct.

2. Which of the following distributions is not skewed?

Normal distribution

Uniform distribution

Lognormal distribution

Exponential distribution

I only

II only

III only

IV only

Only I and II

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Exponential distribution is widely used to describe the time between random events

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