The Interval Between Patients Arriving at an Outpatient Clinic Follows

question 28

Short Answer

The interval between patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follows an exponential distribution with mean 15 minutes.What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be less than 15 minutes?

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