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 at a rate of 1.5 patients per hour. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be less than 10 minutes?

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