The Interval Between Patients Arriving at an Outpatient Clinic Follows

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Short Answer

The interval between patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follows an exponential distribution at a rate of 15 patients per hour.What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival interval will be less than 15 minutes?

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Definitions:

Box Plot

A standardized way of displaying the distribution of data based on a five number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Distribution

The method by which something is distributed among a group or dispersed across an area.

Third Quartile

The value below which 75% of the data in a data set falls, or the upper quartile in a distribution of data.

Hours

A unit of time equal to 60 minutes or 3,600 seconds, used to measure the duration of events or the length of time allocated to activities.