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The lifetime (measured in years) of a processor is exponentially distributed, with a mean lifetime of...

The lifetime (measured in years) of a processor is exponentially distributed, with a mean lifetime of 2 years. You are told that a processor failed sometime in the interval [4, 8] years. Given this information, what is the conditional probability that it failed before it was 5 years old?

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