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The interval between patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follows an exponential distribution at a rate of 1.5 patients per hour. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival to be between 10 and 15 minutes?
 
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The interval between patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follows an exponential distribution at a rate of 1.5 patients per hour. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival is less than 10 minutes?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

0.0915

Answer to Question 2

0.2212



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