Stochastic exercise with exponential distribution

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I have a little problem with this exercise.

The lifetime of a device (in years) is exponentially distributed with the parameter $λ = 0.02$.

After what time are 25% of all devices that were produced at time $t = 0$ still functional?

I have done what follows:

Let $g$ be $=0$ if the device is not functional and $=1$ if it is functional.

Now we must find $t$ so that $P(g=1)=0.25$

So we have $=0.02e^{-0.02t}=\frac{25}{100}$

so we have

$e^{-0.02t}=\frac{25}{2}$

$t=\frac{ln(\frac{25}{2})}{-0.02}$

But the result seems wrong. Where is my error?