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 1 patient per hour.What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be more than 2.5 hours?

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Definitions:

Retained Earnings

The portion of a company's profits that is kept or retained and not paid out as dividends to shareholders, often used for reinvestment in the business or to pay down debt.

Equity Method

An accounting approach for recording investments in other entities, where the investment's value is adjusted based on the investor's share of the investee's profits or losses.

Dividends

Payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members, distributed from the company's profits.

Investment

The allocation of resources, usually financial, in expectation of a future return.