Patients Arriving at an Outpatient Clinic Follow an Exponential Distribution

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Short Answer

Patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follow an exponential distribution with mean 15 minutes. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be more than 18 minutes?

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